Spring Awakening, Good Morning, it's Springtime!

Spring is awakening all around Princeton.  The forsythia shrubs are out showing off their most beautiful yellow flowers.  I really connect with forsythia.  As a child we had a huge hedge of forsythia outside my bedroom window.  One morning I would wake up, pull up my window shade and WOW...there was the gorgeous, glorious, and amazing yellow flowers.  I still feel the exact same feeling I felt when I was a kid as an adult when I see forsythia in bloom, HAPPY and FULL OF SMILES!  Take a look at my perspective of the wonders of Forsythia.....

Next comes those wonderful daffodils.  They grow and multiply without much work and come back every year.  What an amazing present to receive.  I truly appreciate their glory.

Go outside, Enjoy the Sunshine as Spring Awakes all around you!

Musings on the Trees -Friday, December 16, 2011

I love Trees.  Plain and Simple.  They have always fascinated me.  It is amazing what a tree can do.  Bend with the wind and not break.  Hold heavy snow on its limbs and still stand strong.  Survive a hurricane and still look clean and pretty.  Take the intensity of the sun, on a hot, humid day and not even show a sign of sweat.  Wow, if we could just be like the trees. 

My passion for photography is mostly centered around trees-how they look in all the different seasons.  Glorious in Spring and Fall with magnificent colors that only G-d could create.  Winter shows the resilency of trees in withstanding wind, snow and cold.  Summer is just green, green, green.  One day the trees are bare, then BAMM, the leaves are there.  It happens overnight.  I am amazed at the miracle of the trees.  

Here are some of my favorite trees:

lipstick ladies, can you just imagine bottling that color, impossible!

Paper bark Tree, Peel me, Peel me....

glorious maple tree

amazing color!

I could go on and on but you don't want me too.  Just take a look next time you are outside at a tree, and think about how it protects, provides and loves you.  Best of all, it doesn't talk back.  So just listen to the tree with your soul.