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Today's Pick of the Day is a pretty red poppy that opened this morning. I'm so surprised how long the poppies have been blooming this summer! The first one bloomed on June 28, and almost two months later I have more poppies in bud stage and yet to open! It's no wonder these flowers are so popular! The show just keeps on going on and on!!

With this flower, I decided to add some texture, using Photoshop's Cracquelure filter and an additional texture image from Jerry Jones, using his Layer Masks image for the edging! THANKS JERRY!! :)

Albert Schweitzer, (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German—and later French—theologian, musician, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa best known for his interpretive life of Jesus. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view. He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung). Wikipedia: Albert Schweitzer

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