Last time I told you here that the trees in our garden have not yet bloomed. That I saw flowering trees in neighboring gardens, but not in ours.
Well, that's not the case anymore. The trees in our garden also blossomed.
Except for the cherry tree. Only it has not yet given colors. Ie. its buds have not cracked yet.
But how the trees in the garden have blossomed this year!
You know that usually everything happens very quickly in nature. Plants, flowering, flowers grow very quickly. They are here today, they will be gone tomorrow. That is why we need to react quickly and act in time. We are not allowed to say to ourselves: Ah, what a beautiful flower! I'll shoot it tomorrow. Or later. Or another day.
This "later" may never happen. Never come and never happen.
And because I know that, I've already experienced it, and I already know how to never delay shooting something, I took the time to try to photograph the blossoms of the flowering trees in spite of everything.
Because this year it was especially difficult.
You see how I try to help myself with my hand. You see, despite my attempts, some photos just don't have focus. There can be no such thing. Because it was extremely difficult to hold these branches with my hand in order to photograph them.
This year, the trees decided to bloom during hurricane-force winds carrying dust from the Sahara. Or the winds decided to blow just at that time... I don't know.
In any case, it was not pleasant at all, because it deprived us, nature lovers, to enjoy this wonderful process of cracking and flowering, of the birth of beauty.
All I could do was go out between the rains and the rage of the wind to try to catch something. One moment, one blossom.
And the task of the blossoms was to keep themselves intact for as long as possible, because of that.
Well, that was hard too.
Still, happy beautiful springtime again, Nature Lovers!
Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you. |
