Shooting Windows from Len Burgess

Getting a lot of different ice crystal formations on my old windows with this frigid weather. –LB

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Only Nature Could Produce Something This Beautiful.

More sunset photos

I think that’s a big ship on the ocean in the distance, in the photo below:

A really big ship!

Fr. Matthew Green

Inside the church shown in my last post…

…it looks like this:

 

It’s St. Germain L’Auxerrois.  The one where there are Jelly Babies in a little park out front… Photographed during my vacation last fall.

Fr. Matthew Green

Poll results

Well, the results of yesterday’s poll are pretty clear.  The vast majority of those who voted, were of the opinion that I should keep posting on GMG, perhaps including some disclaimer, or commentary when I disagree with something.  That’s pretty much what I was tending to think too.  Along those lines, I added a disclaimer of sorts to my profile description.

I hope that those who voted the opposite – that I should not be associated with the blog (two options to this effect were included in the poll, varying slightly on the reasons for leaving) – will understand my decision, which I think is pretty well explained by some of the comments that people posted.  Thank you for all your feedback, pro and con!

Speaking of juxtaposing very different kinds of content, here’s a photo I took of a statue of a family of Jelly Babies in front of the Gothic tower of the church of St. Germain L’Auxerrois in Paris.

Whatever, right?

Fr. Matthew Green

Tweet of The Day From Andreas Thanos

So I sent Andreas a message asking him to put together a Flickr Gallery of The Photos he hung and he did.  You can view them here-

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Yesterday’s sunrise

I have some more shots of this coming up. It was a beautiful sunrise!

Fr. Matthew Green

 

Beautiful St. John’s Episcopal Church

I stopped by at St. John’s yesterday before their evening celebration of the Epiphany, and snapped a few photos.  Mark Nelson (their music director) and two other cantors were practicing chanting the Gospel in a beautiful medieval chant.

Their nativity scene was made in Bethlehem, carved from olive wood:

 

The church has a beautiful altar piece:

 

Fr. Matthew Green

 

Sunset with a split sky

Photos from a few days before Christmas… Ah, the beauty of Gloucester!

 

 

Fr. Matthew Green

 

Happy New Year!

How better to start the New Year than with beauty? Here are more shots from my October vacation in Paris – these ones are from the cathedral of Notre Dame (with a hat-tip to the Catholic feast day today, Solemnity of Mary Mother of God).

 

 

 

 

Fr. Matthew Green

Mixing it Up

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I find myself creatively torn between the beauty of the abstract and realism of Cape Ann these days.
E.J. Lefavour

The lion does NOT sleep

“I said, no photos!!”, this lion seems to say.

I “shot” him in front of the church of St. Sulpice in Paris.

Fr. Matthew Green

 

Ivy

 

Ivy on the walls of the Abbey of Solesmes, where I spent two days during my vacation in France.  The abbey is located about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Paris.

Fr. Matthew Green

The Louvre seen from Les Tuileries

Another of my photos from Paris…

Fr. Matthew Green

 

Fish Folding, and Candles in St. Sulpice in Paris

Hope to see you today for fish folding at The Hive! (Buoy painting is going on at Art Haven, so we’re keeping the paper and the paint separate.)  The origami tree is practically ready! David, Mary Ann, and I added more layers last night to get it to a good height. We’d go further but we ran out of the right kind of paper…

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So, now it’s fish time! Although we’re recommending the “twist fish” by Gay Merrill Gross because it’s quick and easy, any origami fish folded from one uncut piece of paper will be accepted.

I am working little by little through my photos from vacation in France… This one is appropriate for today, Dec. 8, on which Catholics celebrate a Marian feast day, the Immaculate Conception.

A beautiful church!

Fr. Matthew Green

Under the Arc de Triomphe

Shot during my vacation in Paris.  We should get one of these in Gloucester.

– Fr. Matthew Green