(Pic #1) Mukluk finds a fashionable moment with my blue bandana. Ten seconds later she was out the door.
Savor the seconds. Save the sentiment.
I’ve started relying on my iPhone for little visual bursts of joy. Whether it’s a goofy or graceful pose choreographed by our cat, one of our garden blooms reaching up toward the morning light, or a concrete wall sporting abstract patterns of smudges and cracks, I make sure to document the moment. (Pics #1,2,3)
(Pic #2) Okay, this pic was shot by Josh — but the point is the same — it’s all about capturing the moment — and it’s why he ALWAYS has his Fuji Camera in tow.
These flashes of beauty, art, and love can disappear in an instant. In nature, they can leave as quickly as they came into view. I’m making a point to cherish these ephemeral gifts, as long as they keep presenting themselves.
(Pic #3) A deteriorating exterior wall (with cool smudges) outside an old recording studio in San Pedro, Cal.
You are so observant and creative! Don’t you wish we had iPhones throughout our entire lives! The problem would be that there would have been millions of great photos that were prisoners in a device, and never printed onto paper, so millions of people could have seen them.
Here today, gone tomorrow, fleeting, momentary, and, like you said, ephemeral. The readiness of even an iPhone, can capture the here and now before it vanishes, never to return. I low key hate when those sights, those moments, and those feelings are gone. Your lesson for us today is to “capture” those scenes however we can and to stop long enough to find what is most beautiful and precious. Dang it, you’re inspiring!