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for Steven's group, Monochromatic Month
maybe a little springtime
in black and white
will inspire me
to pick up my camera again...

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"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles."
— Yukio Mishima (Spring Snow)

"When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere"
John O'Donohue

"In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again."
— Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation)

Possibly -
Sedum spurium
Dragon's Blood