How to explain the where of where I have been...
In my gardens...
I have been with knees in dirt, scents of earth, bewitching spring, petal gifts of nature, light of dreams, breeze that twists your hair over your head in dance, song of birds - moments so beautiful I have filed them in my deepest memories.
And somehow...
Somewhere...
In these unfathomably beautiful moments I have urged myself -
Willed myself really...
To attempt to capture something through my lense.
I try for that moment when the sun begins to drop to the west, and graces my rose arbor with a daily gift so intensely wonderful that there is no kind of thank you I could ever muster.
Perhaps by continuing to plant seeds and roots, she hears me and knows.
I think about these things with each click of my camera.
Plates full of gentle flowers.
Perfect golden hour.
I gasp at the beauty I am allowed to collect and share with you through this photographic contraption of wonder.
I pass the gift on.
Because really, what other reason do I write this blog for?
What other reason do I collect photos and moments and tales if not for you?
It's all for you.
Friends, kindred strangers, beauty seekers, artful souls - nature lovers.
Whoever is there, on the other side of this -
There is no other reason to do all of this other than to share it with you.
Some inexplicable need to pass it on.
The best I can do for nature - to hand you a slice of what I see without asking anything in return.
Just to know that maybe somewhere, somehow, you have reached through the screen and taken what you need from the snippets shared.
That's all that inspires me, and nothing more.
No rhyme or reason necessary.
And so here, at this beautiful golden hour in time, I welcome you.
I thank you.
I invite you in - always.
Through the light -
Into the swirling rose tunnel...
That slowly beckons you -
Embracing you in a little rose vine twist of sorts.
A fanciful twist if you will.
I had to seek within myself, ask, why I do what I do?
I know.
It's why I do anything that I do in life.
Love.
I share, I snap pics, I chat with whoever I imagine to be out there.
For weeks, months, years -
A decade and into the second one -
For no other reason than love.
I do it all because it feels good.
Good to share - good to be here.
Because a piece of my heart lives in this virtual theater space.
Because so many of you, I have known for so long now, are a part of my love for this.
This nonsensical dreamy fantasy world filled with moments of real life.
Merged together like a swirl ice cream cone, a place for you.
Seekers, believers, kind hearted creatures.
Yes.
That's all.
Nothing more and nothing less.
That's how I somehow weave my way back here.
Despite the busiest of days, crazy life, and that thing called time.
I seek the balance and hope to find it.
So we can continue to meet through the twist in the arbor -
Meet me there -
Here?
Hope so.
<3 <3 <3
