Shutter Sisters

To Stop, To Breathe, To Listen

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Spring is passing as quickly as it came and everyday I panic that I’m missing it, that I’m not paying close enough attention, that this is the last time there will ever be this spring, this flower, this sky, this particular green grass thriving once again through the cracks in the sidewalk, the little bits of ground between the bricks on the patio and my back door.

I worry about all this and then I worry about the worrying and then spring is gone, gone, gone away, just like the moment calling me to stop, to breathe, to listen.  The only thing that helps is grabbing my camera on my way out the door and taking time to notice the flowers, to lean in to this very second, before it’s too late.

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What lovely bit of new life are you noticing this spring?  Let’s gather up the goodness of this season before it passes.  Show us what’s blooming wherever you live and your images will remind us that everything we need is always right here, right now, in this one perfect moment.

Comments

  12. I’ve had to learn to let go this spring, to be okay with not capturing every moment, every blossom, every play of light. It’s like giving myself permission to *live*, instead of constantly chasing the image, storing my treasure in something more eternal than what I can hold onto here.

    Here is this morning’s capture – shot early so that I can finish what I need to finish before my midwife appt. this afternoon – http://kellysphotographyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/108365-april-mornings-sparkle.html

  25. I have been finding myself pausing a lot, embracing and soaking it all in — so fantastic!! xoxo, ~ M.

  26. Spring is barely here yet since the snow is mostly melted (though it is snowing today). Our spring is VERY short but I don’t panic, I just anticipate anxiously for its arrival and then savour it for the very short time it is here. Since we have nothing yet blooming or budding, not even grass, I’ll have to share one of my spring photos from last year. It’s what we do up here 🙂 Enjoy

    HAPPY EARTH DAY!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27458974@N00/3465723970/

  47. Spring came early in the San Francisco Bay Area. Right now it’s in the 80’s and it feels more like summer. But I took a few shots before spring vanished.

    This picture is actually a bush, but I took a close up and now it looks like wildflowers.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbybeatriz/3464287513/in/set-72157617070698549/

    This is the tree right below my patio. I love watching how it changes with the seasons.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbybeatriz/3465103484/in/set-72157617070659713/

    These dragon snaps are a nostalgic reminder of the days when I lived on a flower farm.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbybeatriz/3465103186/in/set-72157617070659713/

    Thank you for this post. Sometimes I need a reminder to look at the small joys in my life!

  50. I just looked through all the photos again – with a glass of wine – and I’m so glad to be surrounded by so much beauty! Happy spring!

  59. Yay for spring! I’m tormented by the long hours that keep me in the office at the moment and I long to be outside, to see what’s growing and reaching and unfurling. So my camera is always near to hand when I have downtime and I can snap the evidence that spring is indeed here. Here’s hoping the sun keeps shining a while longer!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/26239056@N05/3383687391/