#Elephant Mountain

[atlasandacamera]

Taipei, Taiwan

[wanderaddict]

[thedalatribune]

© Paolo Dala

Are We Still Praying For The Lost?

Who have you stopped praying for? Who is it that you used to lift up to God, maybe someone you used to go to school with, maybe an old neighbor, maybe a family member, and for a long time you would lift them up to the throne of grace. But then you never say this, but the attitude is “Eh, they’re never gonna come to faith.” We kind of give up on them...

Here’s a convicting question somebody asked me once...

What if tonight, you go home and you’re alone in your bedroom and Jesus physically appears to you. And what if he looks at you tonight and he says “I am gonna answer every single prayer that you prayed last week.” If he said that to you tonight, would there be anyone new in the Kingdom of God tomorrow. Are we praying? Are praying consistently, fervently, expectantly for spiritually confused people in our lives? People we love, we want them to have the hope and the joy of knowing the Savior of the Universe.

So here’s my challenge: what if we brought into our minds right now somebody in our life, maybe the one we stopped praying for, someone in our circle of influence who we love and we want to see enjoy a relationship with God the way that we do. To bring a picture of that person in your mind and to commit between now and Easter, “I’m going to pray for that person every single day, may for one minute everyday.”

Lee Strobel The Unexpected Adventure

[thomaslai-republicofchina-taiwan]

從黃昏、夕陽到夜晚...

晚霞逐漸沉沒於黑暗之中，臺北夜幕低垂。

位於：🇹🇼臺灣（中華民國）臺北市信義區

From dusk to sunset, and into the night...

The twilight gradually sinks into darkness, revealing the nightscape of Taipei.

Location: Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan (the Republic of China) 🇹🇼

黄昏から夕焼け、そして夜へ…

夕暮れは次第に暗闇に沈み、台北市の夜景が広がります。

場所: 🇹🇼台湾（中華民国）台北市信義区

황혼에서 석양으로, 그리고 밤으로...

석양이 서서히 어둠 속으로 잠기며 타이베이의 야경이 펼쳐집니다.

위치: 🇹🇼타이완(중화민국) 타이베이시 신이구

Von der Dämmerung über den Sonnenuntergang bis in die Nacht...

Die Dämmerung sinkt allmählich in die Dunkelheit und enthüllt die Nachtlandschaft von Taipeh.

Standort: Bezirk Xinyi, Stadt Taipeh, Taiwan (Republik China) 🇹🇼

Du crépuscule au coucher du soleil, et dans la nuit...

Le crépuscule sombre progressivement dans l'obscurité, révélant le paysage nocturne de Taipei.

Localisation : District de Xinyi, ville de Taipei, Taïwan (République de Chine) 🇹🇼

От сумерек до заката и до ночи...

Сумерки постепенно погружаются в темноту, открывая ночной пейзаж Тайбэя.

Местоположение: район Синьи, город Тайбэй, Тайвань (Китайская Республика) 🇹🇼

[thorsenmark]

Making My Way Along the Highways of West Texas by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 118. My thinking in composing this image was to use the road and center stripe as a leading line into the image with Elephant Mountain and other peaks of the Big Bend Ranges off in the distance. I took advantage of the swiveled out LCD screen and used LiveView to center and line up the image as well as finding a focus point. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

[bouncinghedgehog]

[chickensauras]

I think Laois and MY personal favorite creature, The Simurgh, would get along :]

[ihearttseliot]

[atlasandacamera]

Taipei, Taiwan

[thedalatribune]

© Paolo Dala

The Elephant Mountain

14 December 2017 Entry:

The day before we climbed the Elephant mountain, I miscalculated what time the sun sets in this country. I told Ani that we had leave the hostel earlier so we’ll have enough time catch the sunset at the summit.

We rode a train to Xiangshan.  The sun was gone when we got out of the subway. I miscalculated again, but there’s nothing we could do anymore. We just have to push through even though we won’t see any sunsets at the top… When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, it was  very cloudy. There was great chance we were not going to see anything at the top. We were thinking twice if we were still going to climb it because we were really tired.

In the end we decided to go for it. We didn’t like to waste the opportunity and we didn’t want any regrets. We said to each other:

 "Akyatin na natin kahit walang view. Minsan lang tayo sa Taiwan.“ ("Let’s climb this even if we’re not going to see anything up there. We already here in Taiwan.")

And so, we went… Fortunately, there was a weather window when we reached the summit. The concrete jungle I saw there was breathtaking.

[rexrevri]

Assigning Dead Boy Detectives characters to my favorite songs pt 1.

Edwin Payne

"And the next time I realized that I was breathing and alive,

Was the first time that I saw your face"

There's just something about this boy that makes me believe he would love a banjo. I also imagine this song makes him think of Charles, especially after the confession.

Charles Rowland

"Live fast, die young, pay the price

The best die young, immortalized"

This song is so upbeat, I think Crystal showed it to him once and he's latched on to the lyrics. To me, Charles is very Cage The Elephant coded.

Edwin and Charles

"Can you light my love?

Flames glowing bright as the sun

Deeper than oceans you run

Watch as our world has begun"

This is such a beautiful love song and it describes them both very well. Their love runs deeper than the oceans. They are both pictures in time when they died, but they continue together in their afterlife.

This is purely self-service, I don't believe these characters would listen to these songs specifically, but they are my favorites and I have little scenarios in my brain connected to these songs and characters.

[thegoodmorningman]

Try not having so much baggage! Good Morning!!!

[thorsenmark]

Making My Way Along the Highways of West Texas by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 118. My thinking in composing this image was to use the road and center stripe as a leading line into the image with Elephant Mountain and other peaks of the Big Bend Ranges off in the distance. I took advantage of the swiveled out LCD screen and used LiveView to center and line up the image as well as finding a focus point. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

[connorphilpphotography]

If you didn't know, from a certain angle Ben Nevis looks like an elephant...