The smallest gesture

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented or mailed me regarding my last series of shots. The time you took and the words you wrote meant a lot to me. They also inspired me to make a commitment to push both my writing and that side of my photography a little more. For now though, this one is for Hazel.

 

Someone very close to Hazel became very ill over this weekend. The last few days have been a bit of a daze for myself. Only now are the adrenaline visions fading and a hard reality creeping back into view. Selfish worries are giving way to a more human empathy and it’s fair to say that tears are never too far from my eyes. If this is how I feel, I can only imagine how my dearest little friend is feeling right now.

 

Over the next few days, weeks and months I will help out in every practical way I can but in truth, all you can do at times like these is to be there and hope that for a minute or two that this is enough. There is however, not a word I can say or a gesture to be made that will stop Hazels chest aching or stop her thoughts whirling as she fades to sleep. That is not said to bemoan my lot or draw sympathy towards myself, Hazel is the one truly hurting right now, not me.

 

What I had hoped as I travelled home tonight was that I would find an image that would somehow help, even in a small way. I scoured the archive for something that seemed appropriate and very predictably, nothing did.

 

Hazel, I eventually picked this image because for me there is a sadness to it, but also beauty and warmth. For me, time has changed these leaves, the vibrant proud colours of spring may be gone but they are still there to be loved and enjoyed in just the same way as before.

 

I hope that maybe when I am not around and you need a place to rest your head, you can come here from time to time.

 

 

 

Done