all happening (aka this bud’s for you)

It wasn’t my intention to post TWO bud photos in a row but, two things: it’s all happening (!) and a lot of that activity looks like plants, trees, bushes, vines, budding out. And it’s awesome.

Second, I got my eyes dilated yesterday and spent half the day incapacitated (ugh!) unable to take photos, do any computer work, or be functional, really, in any way. By the time I got my vision back, it was slim pickins’. Fortunately for me, I don’t have to look very far to see the wonders of spring afoot…

92/365: honeysuckle vine with buds

06.09.13 life & death

This juxtaposition makes me smile. My friend Emy is trying to kill the invasive honeysuckle. She not only cut it down to the ground, she placed a skull over it!  I forgot to ask if this was a deliberate symbolic gesture…

In any case, the honeysuckle is growing right up through the bones like a phoenix rising from the ashes…

There is no more realistic portrait of nature than the fact of death and the resolute persistence of life all around it.

160/365: skull and honeysuckle