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Re: [OM] Sign of Spring

Subject: Re: [OM] Sign of Spring
From: Donald <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:10:56 +0000
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I am the same.  There is a ritual of the seasons about it, and after
> our record flood last year, which has taken my wife's perennial beds
> along the bank back to primordial goo, I am glad I have as many photos
> as I have from recent years.  It grieves me occasionally to look at
> them, as so many children lost to time and trouble, but it's at least
> more than memories.  "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" -- that's my
> motto -- and photography, literally, is in part how I like to do that.
>  Flowers are one area in which my wife and I share a common love that
> I celebrate in photography, and so that makes it almost too good to be
> true sometimes.
> 
> My grandmother was a botanist.  It chagrins me that I have such a
> terrible time remembering plant names.
> 
> It will be surprising, in a very pleasant way, as to what comes poking
> up soon after a lost summer.  It will be a better than average spring
> and summer if all goes reasonably well.
> 
> Joel W.

A fine, evocative, simple piece of writing, Joel.

All will be well; the fecundity of even a recently devastated Earth is a 
joy.

D.

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