flame

Mother Nature is so generous as to provide us with infinite beauty around us. Everyday, she has in store for us a different view. The sunsets are never the same...the heavens, always a joyful work of divine art... All these, in the hope that we may look up... notice... marvel... appreciate... and give thanks.

Although I have posted similar photos before, they are not quite the same. That is why, I have learned to always look up, so as not to miss a beautiful ending to another day, that we will never ever get back again.

These flame-like shots were taken on a cloudy day, just as the sun was slowly setting on the distant horizon. I chose to upload these shots to give HONOR, RESPECT and DUE REMEMBRANCE to the hundreds of lives lost during last saturday's bush fire in Victoria (Australia), where entire communities were literally wiped out from the map. Homes and properties reduced to ashes...people burnt down to their painful deaths, trying to protect what they had, or trying to flee the raging inferno.

I am sad. I am in mourning even though I do not know a single soul (of those who perished or of the grief-stricken loved-ones left behind). Sometimes, when mother nature goes in rage, there is nothing we can do. I only ever hope that the theories that it may have been deliberately lit by arsonists is wrong...because if not, these people deserve the same kind of wrath or an even worse kind of death for their "mass murder".