The yard at the end of fall season always looks a bit sad and dreary! The whole earth seems to get ready for a good night sleep; just like us going through routines and rituals at night time before getting into bed. It takes a few exceptional minds who tuned in with human eyes to look for beauties. Could it be out of boredom, or could it be the creative side of the brain needs to be fed?
Whatever the reason or excuse it is, she always finds peace by herself and by looking for extraordinary things to capture with her camera. She lies on the grass, she crawls on the ground, she bends this way that way to find the perfect angle for that special thing or that special moment when she is totally breathless with amazement.
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Along the fence of the yard, this bush reaches the end of its life cycle! She is always drawn to it for the berries and dried leaves. It is the emptiness and loneliness of the bush that calls to her attention. She murmurs her usual words "I hang all my worries and troubles on you", and take a few pictures before she wanders on.
A few moments, alone, totally loss and be one with nature, is all that she needs everyday. Her plate is full with three kids to care for, plus a difficult elderly mother; duties and responsibilities consumed her being. Each droplet on the grass is a drop of silent tear. The droplets are there as an accumulation over the year of pain and struggles.
They are quiet! They are still! They are there one moment, and they disappear without a trace the next. Hidden, hiding among these amazement droplets on the grass seeds have somewhat lifted the heaviness in her heart and release her troubled soul! These are the silent tears of nature. These are the softness that soothing out the stress of life!
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