Steel wheel 2

Ezekiel 1 -- wheels in wheels!

steel wheel

Never a flat tire!

John Deere 3010

John Deere 3010

John Deere 3010

For all you fans of green!

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Dead tree

A verse of hope for Memorial Day

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

Custer State Park, South Dakota

Badlands, South Dakota

old rusty plow

It may be old, but what beautiful lines!

old rusty plow

Love plow

Rusty single-bottom plow at Sunnyslope Farm, rural Filley, Nebraska.

And now you know the answer to yesterday's "What is it?"

What is it?

It's been a while since I've invited you to play "What is it?" These graceful curving lines belong to what object?

Badlands, South Dakota

Chagall windows, Zurich, Switzerland

Ulrich Zwingli statue outside the Grossmunster

Zurich, Switzerland. How sad that most Christians today would not be startled at the incongruity of a church leader posing with a sword in his hand.

Zwingli died in battle, sword in hand, defending his Reformed territory against the Catholics. Not what Jesus had in mind.

Limmat River, Zurich, Switzerland

This is the site of the drowning of the first Anabaptist martyr, Felix Manz.

Grossmunster interior

Largest church in Zurich, Switzerland, where Ulrich Zwingli preached and led the Reform movement in the early 1500's. When he allowed the content and pace of the reforms to be controlled by the Zurich City Council, some of his more impatient followers broke away from his leadership and began a free church movement, under the control of the Word and the Spirit, not the state. These "Swiss Brethren" were called "Anabaptists" by their opponents for their insistence on believers baptism of adults. When the movement spread to the Netherlands, they became known as "Mennonites" because of the leadership there of Menno Simons.

Wengen, Switzerland 2

Wengen, Switzerland

Lucerne, Switzerland 2

Lucerne, Switzerland

Cathedral

Lucerne bridge

Versailles gardens

The hedge hearts were a happy accident, so the verse was an obvious choice.