Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
~ Eliot Porter
~ Bright green, wee little inch worms. Six legs in front, six in back, and a U in the middle.
~ Dewdrops, like a string of pearls on a spiderweb at dawn.
~ The final falling glowing embers of a dissolving firework.
~ The soft little creases on the back of a baby's neck.
~ Tiny sugar crystals baked on to the top of a crackled cookie.
~ Tree frog toes and boogely eyes.
~ Glittery dust specks in a ray of morning sunlight.
~ One single solitary snowflake in all its lacy intricacy, just before it melts in the palm of your hand.
~ Tiny champaign bubbles that dance on your tongue.
~ The complicated design of veins on a papery dragonfly wing.
~ Sparkler stars tracing your name in the night sky.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~Robert Brault
11 comments:
Beautiful photos :-) And I agree about enjoying the small things in life !!!
When i was a boy, little did i know that 4 William Blake's lines would change the vision of my world.
" To see the world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
While Emmerson asked the question
" can such things be,
and overcome us like a summer's cloud,
without our special wonder?"
Thankyou Jaime for taking me back to such flits and futilities of in which we celebrate life's marvellous expressions.
love.
j
NB/must get to work.
Oh, I'm SO GLAD I remembered to check your blog first. Before starting work. It's so beautiful. And the little starburst view of a flower is too incredible for words. NOW I am definitely posting the phto I shot this morning of my new amaryllis - not nearly as beautiful a shot as these are, but when I saw the final bloom had opened, all I could think was that it looked like a peppermint pinwheel. I am inspired.
Debi
'God is in the details'
It's a Mies Van der Rohe quote...and one that I always like to keep in mind.
Both your words and images have a way of bringing those details to life.
Beautiful!
BTW - I have a new blogsite.
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com
Check-it-out!
'Dewdrops, like a string of pearls on a spiderweb at dawn.'
My favorite:)
Gorgeous words and images! Thanks for pretty-ing up my day!
xo
"Tree frog toes and boogely eyes." That's a really lovely line. Makes me feel all happy and full of the joys of a green season :)
Boogely...I'll keep that word running round in my head now when I need cheering!
good glorious girl
i adore your work
can you open an etsy shop
and sell them?
*sighs with pleasure*
good morning jamie. i came here via debi over at emma tree and am so glad to have made your acquaintance! i could look at your photographs for hours and see more in the sharp detail and soft blur than seems possible. i found truly lovely words and images that will stay with me all day.
your friend, bird tweet robin from down the road
Your photos = simplicity.
Your words = simple.
You = simply extra-ordinary! xx
I am a list lover, and let me tell you, this is a terrific one.
For you, my favorite small things:
~ pinwheels spinning madly
~ each tiny bud that makes up the glorius whole of a lilac
~ the little spit bubbles a baby makes when they smile
~ the sounds of a match as it strikes and ignites.
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