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“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” - Algernon Charles Swinburne
The title is "Spring."
In the back of my mind, I wished to say "Spring?" but decided not to support any emotional hesitations I might be feeling. Still, although the heart was willing, I couldn't quite muster a "Spring!", so I decided to feel gratitude for what simply was, without questioning it all too deeply.
It was 61 degrees and there were rays of a warming sun peaking through spaces in the early morning clouds. The wind was crisp but soothing, and full of the smell of fresh earth coming alive. Strange, but I didn't remember passing these Crocuses yesterday. Were they there? Or did they jump out of the warming, softening grip of winter's soil overnight?
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party! ..." - Robin Williams
I had one of those urges we all sometimes get, to stop the world for just a few moments so I might gather this morning up in my arms and hold it closely, gently, passionately next to my heart like a newborn. I tried to practice my meditation breathing; slow in for six seconds, hold for six, slow out for six more, but I wanted to fill my nose with earthy bounty.
So I switched to dog breathing; short, intense, rapid breaths in and out through the nose. Life was coming alive, as was I.
Yes, I was a bit greedy, perhaps as well, a bit needy after this winter. So what? The air was what I needed, a scratch to an itch I only faintly knew I had.
I had checked out the weather for the day before walking out the door. Oh my.
“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” - Mark Twain
Yep, several of those different kinds of weather were on tap for this day.
But that was to come, it wasn't happening now. Even though the wind was going to turn from caressing us from the south to stinging us from the north, dragging the temps down with it from 61 to about 34 degrees in a few hours, I determined I wasn't going to let that drag me down along with it.
Spring. Simply as it is.
Sometimes a leap of faith is called upon to overrule the shadows of doubt.
Flypaper Texture: Catacomb Frieze - flypapertextures.com/
Have a great day/night everyone. Running behind in comments (again) Will be visiting shortly.
Thank you for your visits, comments and invites. hugs.
Very little opportunity to get out and take photos at the moment whilst my Mum stays with us so here's one taken in February last year. Thanks for all the lovely comments and favs on yesterday's little Robin.
Old farm converted to parkland still has lilacs, apples and plums growing along the trails, along with the old cottonwoods and will shrubbery
Many thanks for stopping to view, and I always appreciate comments whether relevant or not, and faves of course!
Happy Fence Friday, have a great weekend regardless of the season!
For Macro Mondays - Card
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Beautiful cards from the Osho Zen tarot deck. This is a smaller deck, but I cropped the main card in this photo so it measures 3 inches in height. The width is 2.50 inches. HMM, everyone.
Macro Mondays theme : On top
Spring is here! There's no better way to enjoy the warm rays of the sun than reading outside and breathing some fresh air! Of course, you still have to dress so as not to catch a cold!
This little figurine is roughly 2” tall (sitting! 😉) and it sits on two river stones about ¼” thick each.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments
An early season snowberry clearwing moth visiting the wild plum blossoms. Usually I see these moths much later in the year. As it happens, I woke up with an inch or so of snow on the ground here today, April 20. hmmmm
Kansas.com: "Wichita may have only seen 0.7 inches of snow Tuesday morning, but that amount and this late in the season was enough to be the second-latest measurable snow in records dating back to 1918. The latest measurable snow was 0.2 inches on April 23, 2013, according to meteorologist Roger Martin of the National Weather Service in Wichita."
I've been wanting to try this shot for a long time. This simple idea was SO tough to execute. My success rate in timing the droplet was only about 1-in-10. Each time I got a shot with a drop in it, I then had to chimp the image and adjust the flower position to improve the focus of the flower in the droplet. As you can imagine, It ended up taking quite lot of shots to produce just a few keepers.
Lighting was a single bare flash from camera right.
Taken for the Strobist Sundays theme "spring flowers" and the Macro Mondays theme "wet".
Captured during sunrise in Kassel, Germany.
Sony A7r + Metabones mark IV | Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21mm | 0.9 Reverse-Grad-ND + 0.3 Hard-Grad-ND
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