Nothing like a day off in the Spring to lift one’s spirits. I left the house this morning to a clear blue sky, warm air, and trees blossoming. I thought, I’ve got to see if I can get my camera working to take a picture of some of those blossoms… just to capture a moment of spring.
I love spring. A lot of people I talk to say that fall is their favorite season. I’ll admit that the beauty of fall has grown on me a lot over the years, but subconsciously I know that it’s the precursor to winter, my least favorite season– cold, gray, and dead. I love how the seasons of the year are metaphors for the seasons of life, and spring brings with it a freshness and newness of life, full of beauty. In spring I feel alive. I feel free from the chains of winter, I feel alive, I feel like doing.
And I feel like taking pictures… and alas my digital camera won’t budge. I charged up the battery again this morning and fiddled with it, trying to get the camera to turn on… once in a while it does. Not today. I realize how much I miss taking pictures. It’s sad and ridiculous how much we take things for granted until they are gone. In about a week and a half this web site will be 4 years old… and it wasn’t started for me to get on and ramble about nothing, that was just a perk of having it. I started it as an outlet for some of the digital photos I was taking. Is it any coincidence that I started taking pictures in the spring, and that spring is when I begin to feel the itch to take photos again after a dead winter devoid of motivation?
So as part of my day off, I spent some time collecting my digital photos and gathering them into one place so that they’re more easily accessible, and chose a photo to display for today. Being as I have thousands of photos, I suppose there’s no reason why I can’t just post photos for the sake of posting photos… for no other reason than the look at them again. To find an appropriate photo for this beautiful spring day, I went back about a year. Without looking too hard I chose the one you see above, taken from the gardens at Turtle Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. I took nearly 500 pictures while I was there… let’s see if I can do better this year 🙂
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6 responses to “Spring”
You know, I WAS feeling fine about having to go to work on this spring day off… Oh, well. 🙂
Ehehe… don’t worry. By noon-ish it was overcast and not quite so nice outside. But ahh… it’s nice just to not have to be anywhere in the morning.
I feel the same way about Spring that you do about Autumn. I can see why people love it, but if it means summer is right around the corner – no thanks.
It’s stinkin hot here.
Spring and Autumn are my FAVS. Spring because it’s not supposed to be so dang cold. (oops it’s the 17th and it’s SNOWING WHAT THE HECK) Fall because it’s FOOTBALL BABY! I can’t stand summer! Way too hot, unless you’re in Hawaii then it’s FAB!
I’ll take stinkin hot over the gray deadness that is winter. That’s what AC and swimming pools are for 😉
Football doesn’t do anything for me, so the cool following the summer heat and the colorful canyons and good camping weather are what fall is about for me 😉
And yes. What the CRAP was up with it snowing on April 17?
cheers to Hawaii! jeers to April snow.