This photo is in a new category for the blog, which are ideas toward the next photo show perhaps.
This blog features a fair number of pictures of the beauty of nature. This is one of its more difficult side. In God and Humanity the other day, Dr. Williams commented that we must never make peace with human death, as that was not how it was meant to be. A discussion ensued about whether animals died before the Fall or were predators and prey. Even if they were, however, Dr. Williams said that humans were not meant to die, and for me even pictures of animal death depict the tragedy of death. As an aside, regardless of whether animals died before the Fall or were eaten by one another, I believe the first few chapters of Genesis tell us that humans were not meant to eat animals before the Fall. I also think this is so because otherwise the sacrificial system would not make much sense, but perhaps more on that another time.
I do not intend to post pictures of dead animals on my blog for gratuitous reasons, but hopefully they depict the glory and the dignity of the animals even as they lament their death.