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Shabbat Shalom Patriotic Style


A swirl of red and white stripes set off by a strip of blue with white stars covers these Sabbath candles with a patriotic color scheme. A digital image created by Wombo Dream AI using the following prompt: 2 patriotic Candles with red and white stripes plus white stars on blue like the USA flag. They are in ornate golden candlesticks burning with a soft glow that illuminates the air around them with sparkling fireworks. The candlesticks should be sitting on a beautifully polished high quality marble table and some silky patriotic flowers of red white and blue should be sitting on the table near the candles. The walls in the room should be gray granite stonework and festive patriotic decorations. The candle flames are peaceful and beautiful.
AI (Wombo) Patriotic Sabbath Candles by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

I love that I can get an idea in my mind of something I think would be pretty, and then try it with an AI design tool. I mostly do that with Wombo because I’m so familiar with it. And this made so many designs to stick with my theme of doing patriotic images for all of July. I had one I liked better except for one thing: the candles were dripping. Of course, that’s what most burning candles do, but because someone might think I’m alluding to the colors running, I decided to use a different one.

Because it’s Sabbath and I want to enjoy some rest after a busy (and good) week, I’m keeping this short, but I will throw in a few more pictures. I’m hoping to create an album in Google Drive of many patriotic and firework images. Maybe I should do about 250 of them. 😁

And I just realized today that I’ve been alive for both the bicentennial in 1976 and now the semiquincentennial. Thankfully, it’s the country that is a quarter of a millennium old and not me. Lol πŸ˜‚. But it is cool to have been born in the right year to live through both of these anniversary events.

Psalm 91:1, 16 BSB
[1] He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
[16] With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

https://bible.com/bible/3034/psa.91.1-16.BSB

I like how sharing the first and last verse of a chapter in the Bible creates a link to the whole chapter. I’ve never tried that before. I guess it doesn’t take much to entertain me. (Grin)

And here are a few extra images before I sign off for Sabbath rest:

One red and white striped candle and one blue candle with white stars. They are in digital image created by Wombo Dream AI and using the prompt: "2 patriotic Candles with red and white stripes plus white stars on blue like the USA flag. They are in ornate golden candlesticks burning with a soft glow that illuminates the air around them with sparkling fireworks. The candlesticks should be sitting on a beautifully polished high quality marble table and some silky patriotic flowers of red white and blue should be sitting on the table near the candles. The walls in the room should be gray granite stonework and festive patriotic decorations. The candle flames are peaceful and beautiful." The candles are dripping but the colors don't run.
AI (Wombo) Patriotic Candles Create a Show
by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Two short fat candles burn to create a firework atmosphere on a marble table. It's a digital image created by Wombo Dream AI and using the prompt: "2 patriotic Candles with red and white stripes plus white stars on blue like the USA flag. They are in ornate golden candlesticks burning with a soft glow that illuminates the air around them with sparkling fireworks. The candlesticks should be sitting on a beautifully polished high quality marble table and some silky patriotic flowers of red white and blue should be sitting on the table near the candles. The walls in the room should be gray granite stonework and festive patriotic decorations. The candle flames are peaceful and beautiful."
AI (Wombo) Pretty Patriotic Candles by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
An ethereal swirl of red white and blue on candles in a digital image created by Wombo Dream AI using the Vibrant Void filter and the prompt: "2 patriotic Candles with red and white stripes plus white stars on blue like the USA flag. They are in ornate golden candlesticks burning with a soft glow that illuminates the air around them with sparkling fireworks. The candlesticks should be sitting on a beautifully polished high quality marble table and some silky patriotic flowers of red white and blue should be sitting on the table near the candles. The walls in the room should be gray granite stonework and festive patriotic decorations. The candle flames are peaceful and beautiful."
AI (Wombo) Ethereal Patriotic Scene by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

(Tech Note: I fixed the Jetpack problem by reinstalling. It hasn’t had a recent update, so I don’t know why that worked other than I’d originally installed it to my tablet by a transfer from my phone, and maybe all it needed was a clean install from the Google Play Store.)

July 3, 2026 - Posted by | AI, Bible, Christianity, Creative Image Editing, Creativity, Nonfiction, Photo Studio Pro app, Sabbath/Shabbat, Slice of Life, Wombo Dream | , , , , , , ,

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