How Does It Feel?

This is my favorite time of year. I find myself wanting to slow down time so that I can savor this season of new life, vivid colors, beautiful flowering, and delicious scents. But I cannot slow down time. So instead I go out with my camera and make photographs always asking myself

My goal is to create images that express answers to that question. Some of those answers might be that it feels…

exuberant
effervescent
sparkly
alive
soft and dreamy
bursting with energy
going so quickly that it’s all a blur
gentle and soft
too short
like eternity in a moment
flourishing
awake
bright and breezy
colorful
like living in a poem

Yesterday I planted my container garden—lettuce, parsley, basil, and oregano. And I planted some flowers in front of the house. Afterwards I sat in my chair beside the window that looks out at the pond and I simply soaked in all of the greens of the trees and grass in our yard and in the park beyond. Then I took a walk in the park that is down the hill across the street from us and photographed crab apple blossoms, wild violets, and more.

Each day I cannot wait to pick up my camera and make photographs of the beauty all around me.

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love

(all the merry little birds are
flying in the floating in the
very spirits singing in
are winging in the blossoming)

lovers go and lovers come
awandering awondering
but any two are perfectly
alone there’s nobody else alive

(such a sky and such a sun
i never knew and neither did you
and everybody never breathed
quite so many kinds of yes)

not a tree can count his leaves
each herself by opening
but shining who by thousands mean
only one amazing thing

(secretly adoring shyly
tiny winging darting floating
merry in the blossoming
always joyful selves are singing)

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love”
― e. e. cummings

Do you also love springtime? Are you savoring every moment of this beautiful short season?

May you walk in beauty.

Note: today’s photos are a mix of ICM (intentional camera movement) and non-ICM. Using ICM felt like a good way to express how quickly this season passes.