Year After Year

Yes, Susie,  I love this quote because I’ve found it be true. The returning to the same subjects and themes over and over. Every year I photograph the blooming flowers and shrubs of spring, but always it is the fallen petals that draw me close. Not the delicate buds or the perfect blooms, but the …

Changing

Port to Starboard   Contentment layers over me in waves. A heart that doesn’t ache, a realization that somehow I will reach up and out of the melancholy, no longer angry. I forgive, forget, fashion a new life from what they have given. There is much. Sunlight breaks through the new red bud tree, a …