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Winter Evening Pilgrimage: Visual Meditation

 -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts

(photos taken along the shore of the Hood Canal)

The winner of this week’s Poetry Party drawing will be announced later today! There’s still time to add your poem — currently up to 23 participants which is a wonderful outpouring of creative energy.

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  1. I’m viewing these photos Sunday evening when it is dark outside.

    The photos are radiant — I don’t know if this is the right word but the light is exquisite. You’ve captured the quality of rare (in Coastal Washington/BC) winter sunlight.

    Tess wrote about prayer today and when I view your photos, I feel like I am looking at prayers that praise Creation that in turn evoke prayers of gratitude — for Nature, for Artists, for Communities of Friends — in me.

    Thank you.