My flowering quince has set flower buds for the new year ahead. As long as we don’t get a serious cold snap, it looks like it will have a strong flower set this coming year, which feels good since I had to completely dig it out last year when we had the foundation lifted. The weather wasn’t ideal to have pulled it out and then replanted it, but it made it through the insult and has settled back in well.
Clearly.
The tiny little buds, through the softness of the Lensbaby Velvet 28, look (to me) rather like a little bunch of limes.
Will I do another photo project next year?
This one, even at only half a year, became very challening to complete. I think it was more of a place-of-mind issue, as the last few months have been a mental struggle and the personal commitment was an added pressure. You might think “Well, why not just have dropped it Paige?” … Because that would have felt like a personal failure on top of an already frustrated state of mind.
So, I don’t know.
I’ll probably do something, just not entirely sure what yet….I don’t feel like I’m seeing or connecting with the world if I don’t look through the lens.
In the meantime, it’s been an interesting year, with a roller coaster of highs and lows. I guess that’s just what life is like…but isn’t it strange…life is a continuum yet we punctuate it with this end of year thing. Tomorrow may be a new year, but it’s really just tomorrow…another day to focus on, another chance to appreciate this crazy world we exist in, and to appreciate the fabulous, amazing, caring, crazy people who populate our lives and put up with our idiosyncrasies.
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
We already know that the coming year will bring some angst and weirdness and global stresses, but 2025 will be what it will be, and the best we can do is be our best while making the best of what it delivers.
Happy New Year
