Jackson's Landing and Cherokee Marsh

 

Today we didn't do anything after work, because the temperature dropped and now it's raining. However, Travalon did go to Cherokee Marsh earlier in the day, when it was sunny and almost warm. As promised, here are photos of Jackson's Landing that he took with his phone, as well as photos of Cherokee Marsh.

This first photo is the boardwalk we always walk on at Jackson's Landing.

This is the very narrow creek leading from the canoe landing into the river. I'm not sure I'd want to take a canoe down this! Maybe a kayak...

And this is a little bridge leading from the loop we always take to some other paths into the marsh.

This is a little shelter and a birch tree.

These are the photos from Cherokee Marsh North Unit. This is a little further from our house, but not too far, so we go there quite often as well.

This is a conical mound on a peninsula of land in the marsh.

Here are some more rosaries and a chaplet I got in Minocqua. The lovely light blue rosary on the left has one "decade" with only four beads! I have another one with a "decade" that is five beads, but that's easy to pray with because I just do that decade twice. It will be more of a challenge to remember to do this one twice, plus two more Hail Marys. The middle chaplet is a Chaplet of the Precious Blood. It's kind of easy to pray because the instructions are right on the medal.

Here is a closeup of the Chaplet of the Precious Blood. Don't ask why I took this photo on Boethius's keyboard - I thought it would be a better background than it was. But maybe you can see more detail.

So this chaplet couldn't be easier to pray. You meditate on each of the seven sheddings of blood and pray thirty-three Our Fathers for the number of years Jesus was on earth, five after each meditation and then a Glory Be, and three closing Our Fathers. Online there seem to be all sorts of extra prayers people add, but no two are the same so I'm going to say the Our Fathers and Glory Bes are all you need. The seven meditations are: the Circumcision, the Agony in the Garden, the Scourging at the Pillar, the Crowning with Thorns, the Carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion, and the Piercing of Jesus's Side. The chaplet has little medals for each meditation, with a Roman numeral and a short description so you know what order to go in and what the meditation is. The big starting medal of the Sacred Heart says: "In honor of the 33 years and the 7 blood sheddings" on the front and then helpfully says: "Our Father at each bead. Glory Be etc. at end of each mystery." I've never seen a chaplet with the instructions right on it! One website has a picture of a chaplet that looks just like mine, which has little plastic heart-shaped red beads with crosses on them, except mine is missing one. I prayed this today, and it really hit me how Love Himself came down to earth and was killed in such a violent manner. Sometimes it does seem like those trying to spread love, peace, and mercy are violently destroyed, but Christ's resurrection is our reminder that evil does not have the last word. 

Interestingly, there is also something called the Rosary of the Holy Wounds, prayed on regular rosary beads, so I prayed that today too. It starts on the crucifix and three starting beads like this: 

O JESUS, Divine Redeemer, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen. 

STRONG God, holy God, immortal God, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Amen. 
GRACE and mercy, O my Jesus, during present dangers; cover us with Thy Precious Blood. Amen. 
ETERNAL Father, grant us mercy through the Blood of Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; grant us mercy, we beseech Thee. Amen, Amen, Amen. 

On the Our Father beads you pray: Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ to heal the wounds of our souls. 

On the Hail Mary beads you pray:  My Jesus, pardon and mercy through the merits of Thy Holy Wounds. 

The Holy Wounds are the left and right hands, the left and right feet, and the side of Jesus. Richard Bonomo says he once saw a rosary with feet and hands on it, and I'll bet it was to pray this particular prayer. I'll keep an eye out for a rosary like that at the antiques stores - you never know what kinds of cool chaplets you might find at them!

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