priorities

as i have mentioned, my daughter is home from college finishing her senior year doing distance learning. what i haven’t mentioned, is that she is taking an experimental film class this quarter and she has decided that my camera is better then hers for making video. so every day we barter about who gets the camera when. since i have a daily deadline, i usually trump her. but on the days before her weekly deadline, she trumps me. today she won. and since her final project is an ambitious one, she had my camera all day. so. i dug into recent unpublished photos and found this lilac. after claiming that the one floret i published last week was all that was needed to say “lilac”, i am a little sheepish to now present a traditional lilacs-in-abundance image. but today was about priorities. and i can recognize them when i need to.

lilacs

green pea, chartreuse, celery, avocado

i did a google search to see if there is an official name for this color of yellow-green. it’s the color that dominates my world for the entire month of may. according to the warren mars color wheel, the most accurate description is green pea, with chartreuse, celery, and avocado near neighbors. i’m going on record saying i’m not excited about any of those names. i will continue to think of it as simply early spring green.

elm seeds, violets, and balsam tips

many jacks in many pulpits

now that we have cleared the overgrown understory of our local woods, we have learned that we have hundreds of jacks in their pulpits, scattered all over the forest floor, preaching their hearts out.

jack-in-the-pulpit flowers (Arisaema triphyllum)

la saison est arrivée

how do you capture the abundance of lilacs? answer: you don’t have to. everyone knows lilacs. or has a notion of purple fountains in their head. but few people knows the lilac floret. now you do. welcome to the crowd. we are few, but mighty.

lilac floret and bud

my thoughts sometimes

there are days when ideas seem to come fully formed, and i just let them lead me in the right direction. then there are days when life drops a pile of feathers in front of me, and says, “make a duck.”

mallard duck feathers from one bird