This past week I haven’t felt like taking the time to blog; instead, I’ve been doing other things. But I’ve still carried my camera with me everywhere I’ve gone, snapping photos here and there as I feel like it. These aren’t photos I took with some specific bloggable purpose in mind; they are simply photos I snapped because at the time, I saw something that struck my fancy.
Many of the photos I’ve snapped over the past week have been images of flowers: shooting pretty pictures of flowers in May is like shooting fish in a barrel. It occurs to me that snapping pictures of flowers for no good reason is a bit like gathering spring bouquets: you don’t do it because handfuls of flowers are “useful,” but because handfuls of flowers are lovely. The purpose of your gathering, in other words, is purely aesthetic: you see something, you admire it, and you want to keep the memory of that lovely, admired thing.
I’ve been itching, as I always do at the end an academic year, to get back to blogging “for real”: part of why I’ve stayed away this week is my desire to start writing longer, more meaningful entries again rather than simply slapping up quick picture-posts as I do at the end of a long semester. And yet, I haven’t found (or, more accurately, made) the time for such posting. So in the meantime, while I settle into whatever kind of bloggish stride makes sense for the summer, here is a bouquet of lovelies to admire. Sometimes you don’t have a real reason for gathering flowers; you simply do it “just because.”
May 18, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Welcome to the club. I’ve been the same way for the last week.
Roger
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May 18, 2009 at 9:07 pm
My blogging has been weak lately, although I did rant about children being abused as “witches.”
Thanks for the spring flowers!
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May 18, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Love these delicate flowers.
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May 19, 2009 at 7:42 am
To you it may seem like “slapping up quick picture posts,” but they are always delightful.
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May 19, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Every summer, there seems to be a slow epidemic of blog-blahs. Maybe this is part of that.
The weirdest part, Rurality, is that I love other folks’ picture posts…but when I rely too heavily on them, I feel guilty. My Inner Writer feels she should be doing MORE!
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