My Saturday, same sensation this month is the sense of change. Similar to last months growing older but changed.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
When we moved in here in 1996 there was one tree in this field and our boys were turning 2 and 3 that year. This picture is a few years after that, and now. The Boys are men and the Teeter-Totter leans in a corner of the woodshed, a relic of my childhood that now awaits a new set of children, someday in the future.
I like this "then and now" shot. It reminds me of the "Dear Photograph" shots I've done and seen- only in them you hold the old picture up over the present day to merge the past and present. This way you get to see both. Just wait until that "new set" of children arrive. I know it'll be a few years before that happens to you, but when it does, you are going to LOVE it!!
I love this "Dear photo" type pic! And that quote is so true. I hate missing the past....it can make me so sad. And it is pointless. So I think of Dr. suess who,said " Don't cry because it's over/ spSmile because it happened" that man was a genius in so many ways!
how those trees have grown! it's like the trees are also your children, the only difference is they don't go to school and will keep you company for a long time.
October 14th, 2012
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