Metamorphosis

What remains: Gossamer wings to the edges of dreams (skeletal hortensia in our garden).  Click photos to view detail.

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France

"All things must change to something new, to something strange." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In this world of change, nothing which comes, stays and nothing which goes is lost." - Anne Sophie Swetchine

"The butterfly is a flying flower; the flower a tethered butterfly." - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

 

Reading:

Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Anthology magazine

Watching:

Linotype: The Film

Baking:

Lemon thyme loaf from Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries II

Listening:

Emeli Sande: Read all about it

Admiring:

An animated short film for Christian Dior, featuring Marion Cotillard

Learning:

Dutch (At least it's a start)

Comments

[Gillian]

I love everything you are doing!
Great list- inspiring!

Hope you are well xo

[jeanie]

Oh, Tara, these are simply breathtaking. I just returned from a visit to a butterfly house -- and how perfectly analagous these flowers are to the gossamer wings.

Thanksgiving is next week and I look forward to giving thanks for a wonderful friendship and for your kind and gracious hospitality during our visit. You made our time so lovely and for that we will both be so grateful! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

[Jo]

Beautiful - both the words and the photos.

[Marilyn]

Immediately when I saw your photos I thought of butterflies. How appropriate that you should include the quote about "The butterfly is a flying flower.." That fits so perfectly. Now I must go exploring your links.
I have just begun reading The Practice of Contemplative Photography and finding the thoughts intriguing.

[Karen Albert]

Tara I love these romantic, gossamer, ethereal images!

xoxo
Karena
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[Igor]

Such beautiful photography, Tara! Oh and I'd love Anthology, too...