A Moment in Summer by the Pond - a photo on Flickriver

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Jl71LY5tc - Primavera, Ludovico Einaudi

"The colors of green in spring are so beyond the colors of green I see at any other time of year. There's a lushness to them that almost overwhelms the senses." - bb

I could not see this particular view from the path I was on. Although it was a delightfully, sunny summer day, the path was a bit shadowy and dark - woody and dense. I could see a clearing visible ahead and as I approached it the light got brighter and shafts of sunlight etched their way through branches and leaves.

As I walked up a small rise in the on the path, I was greeted with this.

I stopped for a moment, of course, allowing myself to soak it in. Trees, sky, clouds, water, grasses, birds. I remember noticing the sounds and songs of the birds, so engaged in their evening conversations. I smiled at that.

As I walked down the path towards the edge of the water, I pulled out my camera. It had been in my pocket all the while - kind of at the ready, but I, as the photog and the artist, wasn't.

Sometimes I get mesmerized by things and forget I'm an artist and a photographer. I'm surrendered to the scene with no distinction between me and my surroundings.

I was touched by this particular view this day. I've seen it before - many times - but each time, in each type of light, it always looks a little different. This day I got tears in my eyes; not a lot, just a little. I cry at the silliest things as I get older.

I became deeply aware of being there. This place, at this time.

It was almost an out-of-body feeling, so deeply connected and present to all before me. I shot some images, but didn't move after doing so. I just stood there. I was consciously allowing myself to be...in this place. Feeling each moment, sensation as it came, when it came - holding it - to savoring it.

This takes training, learning and sometimes a bit of unlearning as many of us tend to walk blindly and blithely through the world.

Some moments will stay with you forever. Some will come and go over time; their arrival unannounced, their departure never noticed - obeying commands only they can hear. Others will go the way of all moments and time.

"We do not remember days. We remember moments." - Cesare Pavese - exquisite Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. Suicide at age 42.

Scene from the North Park Village Nature Center - A Moment in Summer By the Pond. A hand-held Panorama. If the Nature Center did not exist, those of us who cherish secret green spaces, would have had to create it in our minds.

Texture: my own

Made Explore #179 - (two images in a row made explore. Go Figure.)

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Taken on: July 1, 2014

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