Ever and Again
September 10, 2012 
Been here before....done this.
The cooling temperatures..the lessening light. Just this morning - I watched as the first of the changing leaves fell softly to the ground. I've been here before - in this early September.
Some believe repetition to be boring..uninspiring...confining and constraining. I've heard it quoted that repetition is often the hobgoblin of tiny little minds.
But for me - it's within the art of repetition that beauty's uncovered. It's in the returning time after time..one season after another. It's looking and seeing once again and always for the very first time.
The sun rose....as it does every single day.. The morning mist blanketed the lake in gold. The geese honked their horns and begun their daily ascent. And - as I stopped for a moment to look and to see..and to take it all in - I was reminded that this has and will never happen in quite the same way on quite this same day.
Ever and again.
Reader Comments (28)
what a color. what a shot. thank you for ever againing!
I need to see the change in the way you do!
Somehow I cannot get beyond the thought that once the fall ends (and here, that is rather quickly), the long, long winter will be here.
Beautiful words, and such a wonderful photograph, Marcie!
xo
such a lesson you are teaching Marcie Thank you :-)
A very beautiful picture.
Ohhhhhhh. And look at their reflections. This is glorious, Marcie. Never ever boring, this repetition!
You are quite right. So happy that you're always in these special places!
And it is different every time...
so beautiful... thank you
Such a gorgeous image! It's dreamy and it convey a sense of freedom. Great pic!
Yes! So true, so beautiful.
I like the warm tones, and especially the backlighting on the wings. Repetition: enough sameness to keep us grounded, enough difference to keep us interested.
Love the shadows you have captured here.
x
How fleeting these moments are. How beautiful to capture one of them, just a tiny fraction and stop us in our tracks again:~)
love the golden light
beautiful golden colors captured here, love it.. :)
I love the golden light Marcie!!!!. Wonderful also the mirror in the water...
You caught a great moment lady ;-)
SUPER!!
What a delightful capture of the birds in motion! Love the sense of freedom in this picture and the hazy reflections.
I have been thinking that it seems impossible that this year has flown like the birds. We are approaching the beauty of the fall.
Birds in flight - always such a beautiful sight! Lovely...
So true. I find that my best images are made in the same places that I have visited time and time again. It is within the routine and repetition that I find the magic.
Beautiful image, Marcie. The familiar repetition of the seasons is somehow comforting, and there is always something to look forward to in each approaching seasons. The worry is that they seem to be coming round faster and faster with every year I get older!
And I would never tire of seeing it. Beautiful post, Marcie.
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Oh Marcie...what a gorgeous, sublime, beautiful image that captures such movement and emotion....
I am so moved....perfect!!!
So beautiful!
Photograph and birds - both elegant and beautiful.
so true....this image as lovely as it is, can only be seen and taken once.