When God Paints a Picture...

When God paints a picture, He doesn't mess around!

Female bluegill, gravid. Beautiful!

Double wide hen gill, another beauty!

Big male bluegill in splendid spawning colors.

Male red-eared sunfish...a beauty!

Hybrid sunfish, bluegill X red ear cross, male spawning colors. Gorgeous!

More red ear beauty!

Male spawning pumpkinseed with half it's tail missing. Still stunning!

Adult male bluegill in spawning suit. Best Sunday attire!

Even this old and battered male is a fish of beauty. Great body dynamics!

Another gill/red ear hybrid..."gillcracker".

Classic spawning colors on this robust male bluegill.

Beautiful pumpkinseed male at 9.5 inches

As simple and ordinary as the common sunfish species appear to be, they are indeed things of beauty, formed by the very hands of a Creator God who gave us our form and soul as well. We, too, all of us, are beautiful. May we slow down, take time and observe the beauty that is in so many things that we take for granted every day. Enjoy the blessing!