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Earlier this year, before I moved away, I took photos of my grandma's crabapple trees in the spring, when they were blanketed in blooms.

Tonight, on a visit home, I took photos of the same trees, covered in fruit.

 

Honestly, I was surprised to see so much fruit still on the trees, but I guess maybe the birds still have a plethora of other food sources. They may start sourcing from the trees more as the nights turn colder and the insectae start to die away.

 

Glorious fall is only a few short days away.

Dynamic colors of sunrise

 

The sun shining its last hurrah for the day.

mykonos leica m8+summilux 35mm

This was moments after sunset, the plant in foreground offered some sort of visual balance.

Diura Sunburst

BATANES

June 3, 2011

 

Timelapse here: vimeo.com/25106333

 

Email me for more photos of Batanes.

bongbajo@yahoo.com

Siargao, differently

Sansiantai Island,

Taitung, Taiwan

"There’s simply no real substitute for physical presence.

 

We delude ourselves when we say otherwise, when we invoke and venerate “quality time,” a shopworn phrase with a debatable promise: that we can plan instances of extraordinary candor, plot episodes of exquisite tenderness, engineer intimacy in an appointed hour.

 

[…]

 

But people tend not to operate on cue. At least our moods and emotions don’t. We reach out for help at odd points; we bloom at unpredictable ones. The surest way to see the brightest colors, or the darkest ones, is to be watching and waiting and ready for them.”

 

⋅—Frank Bruni’s wonderful New York Times essay on the myth of “quality time.”

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