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For a moment

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For not all things can be captured in the memory, so we made photographs;

A store for all the voiceless laughter and the tender glances of the divine which pass right through those purple skies;

And how the sunlight silently falls for the burnt amber eyes, while the shadows of the curled lashes stand amidst their love guarding the golden sight;

And how the flowing water weaves itself to mirror the world upside down just to fulfil the desires of your floating mind which longs for a place to hide;

And how a single stone could distort the entire world you had affectionately created and almost dived into.

That is something I intensively love about photographs-

They are the proof that once, even if just for that single moment, everything was unbroken, faultless and beautiful,

~Sanjana Laddha


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1445. It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of “wonder and humility.” ~Rachel Carson

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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen,
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth,
are never alone or weary of life.
~Rachel Carson

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What is that I hear? What is it I see? What’s that smell floating along on the breeze? Are they things returning once again to remind me that just like that with a sound, a sight, and a scent winter falls slowly but surely into spring, glorious, glorious spring? Could it be that time of year has come when the greens are greener, the colors are fresher, the fragrances sweeter? Have we at last traversed winter’s domain of quietness, of drabness, of blandness to find once more that hope is tangible, love is in the air, and the “beauties and mysteries” of the earth yet have a way of filling old and young alike with wonder and humility? If so, which of these photographic delights might be the “proof in the pudding?”

Is it the forsythia I saw above?

Or is it this that was right behind it?

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Or is it these side by side hellebores?

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Or perhaps it is the glowing whiteness of this Magnolia Stellata?

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Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. ~Psalm 85:11 ✝

**All photos taken by Natalie