There is something to be said about fragrance and its impact on memory.  From year to year, I photograph the seasons as they change.  Each time I photograph flowering fruit trees in the spring, I walk into the midst of blossoms, hear hundreds of bees as they fly from blossom to blossom, and the fragrance hits me.  Yes.  This is why I come back to them every year, not only in hopes of capturing a significant and beautiful image, but also just to be there, working with my camera, and experiencing something amazing.  I may take similar images, but they won't be exactly like anything I have shot before.  I am in it for the fragrance and its tug into the midst of nature.

The images in today's blog are from a variety of flowering fruit trees in different places that I did not plant, and thus remain unidentified here. But they are a combination crabapple, plums, cherries and assorted other jewels, in full blossom of white and light fuchsia.  

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 Thanks to Victoria, Barbara F. R., Karrenn, Tim, Sam & Jan, Steve, Ingrid, Marilyn G., Terry T., and Pater for writing.
 

A friend sent a Mary Oliver quote from Grateful Living online and it seems to apply to the feeling of spring.  "When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement."  May an assortment of amazing things come your way this week!

until next Monday,

DB

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