Gold at the End of the Rainbow

This photo captures the blue reflection of dad's rowboat and also Dad's reflection is in the water, I can see his face with his hat in the lower right side of the blue reflection in the water, Some times when you take a photo through glass or in front of glass window, you can see your reflection in the window, I see Dad's reflection in the river as he takes the photo from his rowboat. He is forever reflected from the river in the photo and in my heart. Wonderful treasure is in this photo. Surely it is gold at the end of the rainbow.

Photo of a magical inlet on part of the Withlacoochee River down stream from Rainbow Springs, taken by Dad from his rowboat, 2009. This glorious river is a Gulf coast inland waterway in Florida.

Dad's photos speak from beyond his watery grave, which is holy water and ground to me,

Their beauty is worth more than an Irish pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."

Dad believed that the beauty of the river that he lived on was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He told me the last time that I visited with him at his home, that he had a vision of a rainbow and at the end of the rainbow was a pot of gold that sat on the riverbank where he loved to fish. The beauty of the river and its bank and the fish and birds were Dad's treasure.

Dad followed the rainbow to the beginning and end of eternal life and beauty, the Lord Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, the Creator of Eternal Beauty and the Rainbow.

The Lord turns all tragedy into beauty when molded in the loving hands of the Master Potter.

Dad saw the light of the rainbow in His vision, Jesus is the light of the world! When Dad passed away last year, He walked into the Rainbow, He met the Lord, the Light.

There is no greater glory than meeting Jesus in this world and following the Lord through the rainbow into the next world.

Dad left an inheritance to me and my brother that was inexhaustible: the beauty of the river from his property, which is worth more than oil or gold.

We commit the care of the river and the bank into the Lord's Hands, this is now my Heavenly Father's House.

Photo Dad took from his rowboat of a beautifully sculpted, landscaped riverbank home belonging to one of his neighbors.

Dad accomplished much in life, he was an electronics engineer from Georgia Tech, ran a nationwide aerospace business, was a champion athlete, winner of triathlons in his age group. He also won awards in landscaping and rose gardening with the American Rose Society.

Dad accomplished more than most people do in his 82 years of life. At the height of his business career he was a millionaire.

After experiencing life in all its fullness, with both heartache and joy, my father realized, before he passed into eternity with Jesus, that the true riches in this world were the beauty of the sea and the river, the sunset, the birds and marine life, including the wildlife.

These are precious and priceless, meant to be enjoyed by all freely and without cost. Their value is worth much more than a billion barrels of oil.

We must cherish and protect the beauty in nature, Mother Nature's beauty is our true treasure on Earth. The Spirit of God the Father, that gives life to Mother Nature's Beauty is our Heavenly treasure.

Ask Jesus to forgive your mistakes and to wash you clean with His springs of living water,

May the Lord, our God, help America and forgive our sins, fill us with Your Love, and teach us to forgive those who have sinned against us, so that You will forgive us.

Father, You are the light of life, the Gold at the End and Beginning of the Rainbow!

Cedar Key, Florida is a wildlife sanctuary and artist community, home to great seafood restaurants, artistic shopping, and Seminole Indian seashell monuments, as well as an island lighthouse maintained and operated by the University of Florida as a environmental sea laboratory.

Video placed in memory of my father who went to be with My Heavenly Father last year

before Father's Day, in honor of the Glorious Sea Birds that we both loved and cherished

Youtube video by Rosalyn Hardee aka Roz Attaway of Cedar Key inland waterways, sea birds, pelicans, seagulls, great white heron, sail fish and the coastal islands and the sunset on the Gulf of Mexico!

New Video coming soon of Dad's journey down the river to the gold at the end of the rainbow.

Photo by Dad merged and shadow cast with another photo by Dad by David Van Wormer of Salem, Oregon,

Gulf Blue Angel stands proud on the river bank, inviting you to enter paradise! Here is the gold at the rainbow's end. Dad's reflection from the row boat is captured to the left of the blue heron and it's reflection in the water. Pure Gold!

Photo of a Florida Gulf Blue Heron, one of he World's Most Beautiful Birds, Dad's Favorite Feathered Friend, this heron could not fly, he was crippled. Dad helped to take care of him.

I am sure Dad still watches over the bird together with our Heavenly Father who knows when a sparrow falls. Dad worked tirelessly to guard the river bank and take care of the birds and the fish,

I know he is guarding the Gulf Coast and the river bank now from beyond the grave.

Lord help me to continue the family tradition of guarding the Gulf Coast and the riverbank on the inland waterways including the sea birds and the marine animals.

The Blue Angel, aka as the Florida Gulf Blue Heron invites all to enter God's paradise of Love through our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Way, the Life and the Truth! God's Healing Love is the Answer to Life's Problems!

Photo of Condominium Community on the Withlacoochee River taken by Dad from his rowboat

My father on earth had dreams, most of us do have dreams and our Father in Heaven also has dreams. The Lord's dreams will come true. Our dreams will come true if we work hard to achieve them and we allow the Lord to renew His image in us and give us wisdom and strength to accomplish our dreams. Our Father the Creator made mankind in His Image, through mistakes that we make, our Father's image in us is marred, so that we don't always see things clearly and do the things that please our Creator. Our Heavenly Father is a master landscaper and gardener, most of His children have some type of desire to create and grow a garden in water or in soil, we get this from our Heavenly father's image. Some people on the planet are so marred they have no idea of what a garden should be like and many do not respect the Garden that God planted on earth and sea. God's garden has been marred by mankind whom He created to enjoy and delight and have fellowship with in the midst of His Beautiful Garden of Eden. The Lord plans to restore the garden of Eden.

My earthly father worked very hard to create beautiful gardens at his home in Windermere, Florida and Dunnellon, Florida. Dad did not finish his land and water garden in Dunnellon. He was building a natural fortress to keep back the ocean and the river when it flooded during hurricane season to protect his inland riverfront property. It is my desire to finish my father's dream and perfect his garden in Florida to a beauty that can be admired, appreciated and enjoyed by all, to make it into a bird sanctuary and paradise.

Our Heavenly Father will restore the Garden of Eden in the inland waterways of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, it is His Dream! He is going to make Haiti into a paradise fit for a king, as well, the beautiful ocean in the Gulf will be as pure and clean as the Caribbean Sea off the Cayman Islands. The Gulf Coast tide will be a beautiful emerald green once again and the sands pure white and clean, Louisiana's coast will no longer be a desolation but beautiful. The Lord will also restore your broken heart from stone, cold and dead back to life again with His Love. He will make your heart beautiful like the Garden of Eden when you ask for forgiveness and restoration through His Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord. God our Father makes dreams come true. He recounts His Dreams through the prophet Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 36:33-36 (New International Version - UK)

³³ 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

³⁴ The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

³⁵ They will say, This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.

³⁶ Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.'

We are in the process of becoming the New Jerusalem, the Holy Temple of God, the Restored Garden of Eden, God's Golden Treasure Lit by the Rainbow of Promise, His Son!

Commentary by Gulf Blue Angel, from the Heron Herald Times, Florida Resident,

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

"If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and shall seek My face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, will forgive their sins and will heal their land."

		Photo of the Withlacoochee River, a Gulf of Mexico inland waterway in Florida, taken by Roy Attaway, aka Oscar Leroy Attaway, from his riverbank home, 2009. Dad's property is for sale by realtor Michelle Dinkins-Buck, please contact her for more information and to schedule an appointment to see this glorious property with a view that is worth more than the gold at the end of the rainbow, Michelle's contact information is below: Michelle Dinkins-Buck Broker, FL Home Sales & Dev. 1028 E. Silver Springs Blvd Ocala, FL 34470 352-622-2324 Office 352-622-2123 Fax 352-208-3705 Cell My father captured the beauty of the river in this photo before he went to be with Jesus last year, he took this photo from his riverfront property in Dunnellon, Florida. Dad's property is on the river with the fountainhead springs at Rainbow Springs aka as Blue Run, the water bubbles out of the spring blue, it is truly a paradise on earth filled with beautiful Blue Gill fish and Gulf wildlife and birds. The river is an inland waterway that leads to the Gulf of Mexico, it is about about 8 miles from the coast from this point on the river. Rainbow Springs is one of the loveliest places in Florida. All springs are beautiful, but no spring compares in beauty to Blue Run aka Rainbow Springs, it is truly a fountain that gives birth to beautiful flora and fauna beyond compare. It is the fourth largest spring in Florida. Photo of the Withlacoochee River, a Gulf of Mexico inland waterway in Dunnellon, Florida taken by my father, Roy Attaway 2009, there is a blue heron in the left background in the grass, my father loved this exquisite sea bird and the river. My father cherished the river and worked hard to preserve the wild life, the river and the bank. This photo captures the blue reflection of dad's rowboat and also Dad's reflection is in the water, I can see his face with his hat in the lower right side of the blue reflection in the water, Some times when you take a photo through glass or in front of glass window, you can see your reflection in the window, I see Dad's reflection in the river as he takes the photo from his rowboat. He is forever reflected from the river in the photo and in my heart. Wonderful treasure is in this photo. Surely it is gold at the end of the rainbow. Photo of a magical inlet on part of the Withlacoochee River down stream from Rainbow Springs, taken by Dad from his rowboat, 2009. This glorious river is a Gulf coast inland waterway in Florida. Dad's photos speak from beyond his watery grave, which is holy water and ground to me, "Save the inland waterway sanctuaries. Their beauty is worth more than an Irish pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." Dad believed that the beauty of the river that he lived on was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He told me the last time that I visited with him at his home, that he had a vision of a rainbow and at the end of the rainbow was a pot of gold that sat on the riverbank where he loved to fish. The beauty of the river and its bank and the fish and birds were Dad's treasure. Dad followed the rainbow to the beginning and end of eternal life and beauty, the Lord Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, the Creator of Eternal Beauty and the Rainbow. The Lord turns all tragedy into beauty when molded in the loving hands of the Master Potter. Dad saw the light of the rainbow in His vision, Jesus is the light of the world! When Dad passed away last year, He walked into the Rainbow, He met the Lord, the Light. There is no greater glory than meeting Jesus in this world and following the Lord through the rainbow into the next world. Dad left an inheritance to me and my brother that was inexhaustible: the beauty of the river from his property, which is worth more than oil or gold. This view now belongs to my brother and myself, for us to maintain. We commit the care of the river and the bank into the Lord's Hands, this is now my Heavenly Father's House. Photo Dad took from his rowboat of a beautifully sculpted, landscaped riverbank home belonging to one of his neighbors. Dad accomplished much in life, he was an electronics engineer from Georgia Tech, ran a nationwide aerospace business, was a champion athlete, winner of triathlons in his age group. He also won awards in landscaping and rose gardening with the American Rose Society. Dad accomplished more than most people do in his 82 years of life. At the height of his business career he was a millionaire. After experiencing life in all its fullness, with both heartache and joy, my father realized, before he passed into eternity with Jesus, that the true riches in this world were the beauty of the sea and the river, the sunset, the birds and marine life, including the wildlife. These are precious and priceless, meant to be enjoyed by all freely and without cost. Their value is worth much more than a billion barrels of oil. We must cherish and protect the beauty in nature, Mother Nature's beauty is our true treasure on Earth. The Spirit of God the Father, that gives life to Mother Nature's Beauty is our Heavenly treasure. Thank you Lord for your peace that passes all understanding. You grant your children peace in the midst of the storm's center. Ask Jesus to forgive your mistakes and to wash you clean with His springs of living water, May the Lord, our God, help America and forgive our sins, fill us with Your Love, and teach us to forgive those who have sinned against us, so that You will forgive us. Lord, Our Father in Heaven, deliver us from evil. Father, You are the light of life, the Gold at the End and Beginning of the Rainbow! Cedar Key, Florida is a wildlife sanctuary and artist community, home to great seafood restaurants, artistic shopping, and Seminole Indian seashell monuments, as well as an island lighthouse maintained and operated by the University of Florida as a environmental sea laboratory. Video placed in memory of my father who went to be with My Heavenly Father last year before Father's Day, in honor of the Glorious Sea Birds that we both loved and cherished on the Gulf of Mexico Coast and inland waterways! Youtube video by Rosalyn Hardee aka Roz Attaway of Cedar Key inland waterways, sea birds, pelicans, seagulls, great white heron, sail fish and the coastal islands and the sunset on the Gulf of Mexico! Excerpts from Psalm 37 are also included in the video. New Video coming soon of Dad's journey down the river to the gold at the end of the rainbow. Photo by Dad merged and shadow cast with another photo by Dad by David Van Wormer of Salem, Oregon, Artist , Photographer and Entrepreneur Gulf Blue Angel stands proud on the river bank, inviting you to enter paradise! Here is the gold at the rainbow's end. Dad's reflection from the row boat is captured to the left of the blue heron and it's reflection in the water. Pure Gold! Photo of a Florida Gulf Blue Heron, one of he World's Most Beautiful Birds, Dad's Favorite Feathered Friend, this heron could not fly, he was crippled. Dad helped to take care of him. I am sure Dad still watches over the bird together with our Heavenly Father who knows when a sparrow falls. Dad worked tirelessly to guard the river bank and take care of the birds and the fish, I know he is guarding the Gulf Coast and the river bank now from beyond the grave. Lord help me to continue the family tradition of guarding the Gulf Coast and the riverbank on the inland waterways including the sea birds and the marine animals. The Blue Angel, aka as the Florida Gulf Blue Heron invites all to enter God's paradise of Love through our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Way, the Life and the Truth! God's Healing Love is the Answer to Life's Problems! Photo of Condominium Community on the Withlacoochee River taken by Dad from his rowboat downstream from Blue Run aka Rainbow Springs Restoration of the Garden of Eden My father on earth had dreams, most of us do have dreams and our Father in Heaven also has dreams. The Lord's dreams will come true. Our dreams will come true if we work hard to achieve them and we allow the Lord to renew His image in us and give us wisdom and strength to accomplish our dreams. Our Father the Creator made mankind in His Image, through mistakes that we make, our Father's image in us is marred, so that we don't always see things clearly and do the things that please our Creator. Our Heavenly Father is a master landscaper and gardener, most of His children have some type of desire to create and grow a garden in water or in soil, we get this from our Heavenly father's image. Some people on the planet are so marred they have no idea of what a garden should be like and many do not respect the Garden that God planted on earth and sea. God's garden has been marred by mankind whom He created to enjoy and delight and have fellowship with in the midst of His Beautiful Garden of Eden. The Lord plans to restore the garden of Eden. My earthly father worked very hard to create beautiful gardens at his home in Windermere, Florida and Dunnellon, Florida. Dad did not finish his land and water garden in Dunnellon. He was building a natural fortress to keep back the ocean and the river when it flooded during hurricane season to protect his inland riverfront property. It is my desire to finish my father's dream and perfect his garden in Florida to a beauty that can be admired, appreciated and enjoyed by all, to make it into a bird sanctuary and paradise. Our Heavenly Father will restore the Garden of Eden in the inland waterways of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, it is His Dream! He is going to make Haiti into a paradise fit for a king, as well, the beautiful ocean in the Gulf will be as pure and clean as the Caribbean Sea off the Cayman Islands. The Gulf Coast tide will be a beautiful emerald green once again and the sands pure white and clean, Louisiana's coast will no longer be a desolation but beautiful. The Lord will also restore your broken heart from stone, cold and dead back to life again with His Love. He will make your heart beautiful like the Garden of Eden when you ask for forgiveness and restoration through His Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord. God our Father makes dreams come true. He recounts His Dreams through the prophet Ezekiel. Ezekiel 36:33-36 (New International Version - UK) ³³ 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. ³⁴ The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. ³⁵ They will say, This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited. ³⁶ Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.' We are in the process of becoming the New Jerusalem, the Holy Temple of God, the Restored Garden of Eden, God's Golden Treasure Lit by the Rainbow of Promise, His Son! Amen and Amen, In Jesus Name, let this be done! Gulf Blue Angel Commentary by Gulf Blue Angel, from the Heron Herald Times, Florida Resident, Gulf of Mexico You may write to Gulf Blue Angel at gulfblueangel@aol.com The Heron Speaks, your comments and prayers are welcome! "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11) We thank God for His Many Blessings! The Lord turns our mourning into joy when we seek His Face in the midst of disaster! "If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and shall seek My face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, will forgive their sins and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 We thank our soldiers for their sacrifice! We pray for the leaders of our country. We give thanks to the Lord in every situation. We look forward through the eyes of faith, to the restoration of the beauty that our Heavenly Father created in the Gulf of Mexico! RoseWindAnSea promotes wildlife, sea life and environmental preservation as well as lighthouse restoration, we value the sanctity of life. We believe in the right to life for every unborn child in the womb and the elderly, our senior citizens should be valued and no one should set a limit on how long a person can live except our Creator. We do not agree with federal funding for abortion or a federal mandate to terminate a senior citizen's life by a death panel. 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