Seeing 2012 (#30)

For your consideration: from a retreat I took in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains, away from modern life — and all of its trappings and attendant imprisonments — a representative of an unexpectedly sparse population of the delicate, gentle spiritual notes which dance on Nature's symphonic score sheets.

I think it no mistake in the large scheme of our experience as human beings that we must deliberately pause in order to take conscious recognition of the ever present beauty which surrounds us.

The effort invested is repaid in far greater measure by the healing of appreciation.

Daffodil, #5737-7D

© 2012 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: March 3, 2012; Canon 7D; f/6.4 @ 1/200 sec; —2/3 EV; ISO 800;
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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