October 2024

• Header is an Inglewood evergreen (well named) trio from Tuesday 01 October.

• I'm still adding some of my art and design favorites to this page.

• Urban Wilderness / City Paradise for October

• Sunday 06 October, Saint Francis Day, concluded the formal Season of Creation. I worshiped at Christ the King in Torrance that has a huge labyrinth in the worship area.

• This collage by google AI showcases both interior and exterior. They use different templates than the ones we can use, and generally choose great arrangement of pictures, though sometimes what parts of the pictures display is a bit funky.

• After worship I facilitated a season of creation art workshop.

• Monday 07 October, Chrysanthemum breakfast bouquet

• My first ever trip to IKEA LA (in Carson, not far from Cal State Dominguez Hills), where I bought a few fun things.

• That same Monday evening, 07 October

Home is the place where when you have to go there,
they have to take you in
(and a cup of Americone Dream Ice Cream).
…Robert Frost

• First picture is the actual ice cream I enjoyed

• Google AI made this ice cream collage. They use different templates than what's available to us. I love the angles and surprises on this! Of the dozens I've collected from my google photos, this layout is unique.

• Saturday 12 October – A wonderful Journaling and Prayer workshop at Christ the King. Joelle, the facilitator, helped immensely with my journaling roadblocks. Having a single focus (prayer, gardening, sightseeing, travel, etc.) is a good idea. And she has a twice monthly substack newsletter!

• Friday 18 October – Donuts and Celestial Seasonings Berry Tea

• Sunday 27 October – West Los Angeles for Reformation Day Worship, farewell to Pastor Peg, and an alfresco potluck. I actually forget to take pictures of the brunch and dessert tables, but happily realized the sun would have been too bright.

• But I captured the Autumn Centerpiece at our table!

• Thursday 31 October Halloween / All Hallows and actual Reformation Day

• I have enough pictures this month so I didn't make new ones for Halloween or Reformation.

Season of Creation 4 :: Mountain

Season of Creation 4 :: Mountain

God's holy mountain
is the joy of all the earth.
Psalm 48:1-2
Intro

For about a decade I designed for the liturgical Season of Creation emphasis every year. Between "life stuff" and a general move away from the three year series related to the Revised Common Lectionary, I didn't design anything new for the past couple of years. However, many pastors and churches still prefer the year A – Spirit; Year B – Word; Year C – Wisdom series. They make much more creative and interpretive sense than trying to dig out connections from the appointed RCL readings.

Not only due to Covid that exacerbated everything that wasn't going well for everyone, my days have been too unsettled for reasonably good overall health, yet I still was smart enough to remember no one does anything truly original because everything is inspired and derivative. Over the decades I've recycled, reworked, re-appropriated, and redone a lot of my own art and writing. Besides, given that some of my Season of Creation designs have been some of my forty or fifty favorites, why not do another Act II? I've based this year's banners on Year B from 2018.

Fonts used:

• Big Truck – Sunday name
• Betsystype – scripture verse
• Keener – season of creation calendar year
• Chelsea Studio – series name

Season of Creation 3 :: Sky

Season of Creation 3 :: Sky

The heavens declare
the glory of God
and the firmament
sheweth God's handiwork.
Psalm 19:1
Intro

For about a decade I designed for the liturgical Season of Creation emphasis every year. Between "life stuff" and a general move away from the three year series related to the Revised Common Lectionary, I didn't design anything new for the past couple of years. However, many pastors and churches still prefer the year A – Spirit; Year B – Word; Year C – Wisdom series. They make much more creative and interpretive sense than trying to dig out connections from the appointed RCL readings.

Not only due to Covid that exacerbated everything that wasn't going well for everyone, my days have been too unsettled for reasonably good overall health, yet I still was smart enough to remember no one does anything truly original because everything is inspired and derivative. Over the decades I've recycled, reworked, re-appropriated, and redone a lot of my own art and writing. Besides, given that some of my Season of Creation designs have been some of my forty or fifty favorites, why not do another Act II? I've based this year's banners on Year B from 2018.

Fonts used:

• Big Truck – Sunday name
• Betsystype – scripture verse
• Keener – season of creation calendar year
• Chelsea Studio – series name

Season of Creation 2 :: Humanity

Season of Creation 2 :: Humanity

You have made them
a little lower than God
and crowned humanity
with glory and honour.
Psalm 8:5
Intro

For about a decade I designed for the liturgical Season of Creation emphasis every year. Between "life stuff" and a general move away from the three year series related to the Revised Common Lectionary, I didn't design anything new for the past couple of years. However, many pastors and churches still prefer the year A – Spirit; Year B – Word; Year C – Wisdom series. They make much more creative and interpretive sense than trying to dig out connections from the appointed RCL readings.

Not only due to Covid that exacerbated everything that wasn't going well for everyone, my days have been too unsettled for reasonably good overall health, yet I still was smart enough to remember no one does anything truly original because everything is inspired and derivative. Over the decades I've recycled, reworked, re-appropriated, and redone a lot of my own art and writing. Besides, given that some of my Season of Creation designs have been some of my forty or fifty favorites, why not do another Act II? I've based this year's banners on Year B from 2018.

Fonts used:

• Big Truck – Sunday name
• Betsystype – scripture verse
• Keener – season of creation calendar year
• Chelsea Studio – series name

Season of Creation 1 :: Earth

Season of Creation 1 :: Earth

Then God Said,
"Let the earth bring forth grass;
and the fruit tree yield fruit,"
and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
Intro

For about a decade I designed for the liturgical Season of Creation emphasis every year. Between "life stuff" and a general move away from the three year series related to the Revised Common Lectionary, I didn't design anything new for the past couple of years. However, many pastors and churches still prefer the year A – Spirit; Year B – Word; Year C – Wisdom series. They make much more creative and interpretive sense than trying to dig out connections from the appointed RCL readings.

Not only due to Covid that exacerbated everything that wasn't going well for everyone, my days have been too unsettled for reasonably good overall health, yet I still was smart enough to remember no one does anything truly original because everything is inspired and derivative. Over the decades I've recycled, reworked, re-appropriated, and redone a lot of my own art and writing. Besides, given that some of my Season of Creation designs have been some of my forty or fifty favorites, why not do another Act II? I've based this year's banners on Year B from 2018.

Fonts used:

• Big Truck – Sunday name
• Betsystype – scripture verse
• Keener – season of creation calendar year
• Chelsea Studio – series name

Season of Creation 4B • Mountain

God's holy mountain
is the joy of all the earth.
Psalm 48:1-2

Season of Creation 3B • Sky

The heavens declare
the glory of God,
and the firmament
sheweth God's handiwork.
Psalm 19:1

Season of Creation 2B • Humanity

You have made them
a little lower than God
and crowned humanity
with glory and honor.
Psalm 8:5

Original B&W faces art by Prawny via RGB Stock; recolored by me in my suntreeriver design identity.

Season of Creation 1B • Planet Earth

Then God said,
"Let the earth bring forth grass,
and the fruit tree yield fruit,"
and it was so. Genesis 1:11

Season of Creation 4B: Mountain Sunday

Psalm 48:1-11

¹ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
in the mountain of his holiness.

² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³ God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴ For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵ They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

⁶ Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷ Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

⁹ We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰ According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:
thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

KJV

Season of Creation 3B: Sky Sunday

Psalm 19:1-6

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

² Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

³ There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

⁴ Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

⁵ Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

KJV

Season of Creation 2B: Humanity Sunday

Psalm 8

¹ O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,
that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

⁶ Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷ All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

KJV

Season of Creation 1B: Earth Sunday

Psalm 33

1-3
Good people, cheer God!
    Right-living people sound best when praising.
Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
    Play his praise on a grand piano!
Invent your own new song to him;
    give him a trumpet fanfare.

4-5
For God's Word is solid to the core;
    everything he makes is sound inside and out.
He loves it when everything fits,
    when his world is in plumb-line true.
Earth is drenched
    in God's affectionate satisfaction.

6-7
The skies were made by God's command;
    he breathed the word and the stars popped out.
He scooped Sea into his jug,
    put Ocean in his keg.

8-9
Earth-creatures, bow before God;
    world-dwellers―down on your knees!
Here's why: he spoke and there it was,
    in place the moment he said so.

The Message

season of creation 2012

Although I'd hoped to write a eucharistic prayer that would fit all 4 Sundays of this year's Season of Creation, I haven't yet done so; in the meantime, here's my illustration—the original version of the photograph I edited is by Kevin Connors from morguefile: