Do you ever have those moments where the smallest things that you realize are all around you all the time really make you stop & take notice. I had one of those days last weekend when my husband & I took the top off of our jeep wrangler & went for what he refers to as "a top-down jeep cruise". We ended up at some friends cabin that they have on a pond in the woods behind their house.
Here are some pictures of a few of the beauties of nature that I thought worthy of a photo.
One is of the yellow iris & phlox that she had planted around the cabin. I love the combination of the two colors & the contrast of the textures of the flowers together.
Another is of a single stem yellow flower(I'm not sure what it is) that just seemed to thrive among the mossy water & dried up cattail reeds. I love how bright & alive it is among the not so pretty water & dried plants.
The last photo is my favorite. Click on it to enlarge it so you can get a better look. A mother bird had built her nest precariously in the dried reeds of the cattails & there she had made her home. The whole thing was teetering above the murky waters of the pond, like a gust of wind would just blow the whole thing away.
The eggs had already hatched & we watched her, all day, caring for the little ones. They were so new to the world that they could barely hold up their heads to receive their meals.
So you see there was really nothing new that I saw that day, but I just saw it with renewed fresh eyes. Sometimes we get so caught up in the hustle of our lives that we forget the wonderment that surrounds us everyday if we would just slow down to enjoy it.
2 comments:
Your blog today...
Sheer poetry to my soul :)
I love what you have to say...it is so true. I also love to take photos of nature! Thanks for sharing these.
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