Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> I am the same. There is a ritual of the seasons about it, and after
> our record flood last year, which has taken my wife's perennial beds
> along the bank back to primordial goo, I am glad I have as many photos
> as I have from recent years. It grieves me occasionally to look at
> them, as so many children lost to time and trouble, but it's at least
> more than memories. "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" -- that's my
> motto -- and photography, literally, is in part how I like to do that.
> Flowers are one area in which my wife and I share a common love that
> I celebrate in photography, and so that makes it almost too good to be
> true sometimes.
>
> My grandmother was a botanist. It chagrins me that I have such a
> terrible time remembering plant names.
>
> It will be surprising, in a very pleasant way, as to what comes poking
> up soon after a lost summer. It will be a better than average spring
> and summer if all goes reasonably well.
>
> Joel W.
A fine, evocative, simple piece of writing, Joel.
All will be well; the fecundity of even a recently devastated Earth is a
joy.
D.
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