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signs of change

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Change.  The word has been ringing in my ears for a few weeks now.  The leaves on our trees are beginning their change from greens to golden browns. My kids returned to school ending what felt like the best summer vacation in years. The temperatures are dipping from the heat of summer to the cool of autumn.  The daylight is shortening.  So much change all at once.  It can throw a routine loving girl like me off balance.  Rather than fight the change I take out my camera and search for the beauty in the signs. The morning I dropped my son off at his first day of first grade I was really feeling tender.  I had my camera on me since I had just snapped what felt like a zillion photos of him walking into school, his new classroom, and of course, he and his backpack.  On my way home I took the long way.  I stopped a few times, each time getting out of my car, camera in hand, searching.  For what I had no idea.  I just needed to slow down and take those few minutes for myself.  I tend to go small on these occasions.  Beauty in the details sort of thing. Most of summer’s wildflowers have come and gone here already.  The queen anne’s lace have turned inward.  The once pretty parasols of white flowers now wrapped upward as if they are holding on to one another.  A true sign of season’s change.  I snapped away at them and somehow felt lighter, happier.

As we say goodbye to another season what signs of change do you find?  Please share your images with us.

Comments

  8. My favorite change is where the light falls. I love the different shadows that are found here and there:
    http://365riddle.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/8-26-2010/
    The small spots of light that make their way across the room:
    http://365riddle.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/9-2-2010/
    Seeing my children notice the change too:
    http://365riddle.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/9-5-2010/
    And knowing that certain flowers mean change for certain:
    http://365riddle.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/9-8-2010/

  17. i haven't caught any pictures of change around here, but i can sure feel it. the colors are changing, the air is cooler, school is back in & i turned my furnace on today! hope your kids settle into the school routine 🙂

  18. Such a lovely, lovely photo! That light is gorgeous. Although I'm sad there's less daylight, I'm embracing the change because fall is my favorite time of year. And the change in the light is subtle, but still there. One of my fave recent shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trudem/4958935688/

    Not to mention pumpkin spice lattes are back and my birthday is in less than a month! 😉

  20. "Most of summer's wildflowers have come and gone here already. The queen anne's lace have turned inward. The once pretty parasols of white flowers now wrapped upward as if they are holding on to one another. A true sign of season's change. I snapped away at them and somehow felt lighter, happier."

    Loved the imagery expressed in those sentences …. so poetic!

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