i have spent the last few days scrounging for still blog images. there are times when they just flow, and i find myself in a rhythm where every day presents me with something beautiful and new. then come the dry spells, when i can spend days or weeks feeling as if i am stuck in a dream where you need to run fast to keep up, but your legs won’t respond and it feels as if you are running through molasses. still blog has just completed one of its molasses phases. so what does all that have to do with joseph, my 11 year old son? well, he is a gift in more ways than i have space to discuss, but today, as i dealt with news on multiple fronts, both good and bad, but all of it time consuming, i discovered a maple seedling placed carefully on my mouse pad. it turned out to be exactly the still blog image i needed. i needed a burst of speed today, and joseph was my legs.

sprouting maple seed

saint paul, minnesota