Suddenly, Last Summer

It's a warm sunny day here and I've spent the better part of the morning organizing my creative work into files, deleting, saving and reshuffling.

There are years of work to go through and some of it takes me back to specific times in my life. There I find myself recalling things I've long forgotten like what was going on in the backdrop of my life-events, significant periods and all that seemed as if it were forever at the time.

It's funny how quickly time passes and how life moves us through the winds of change. We are helped to forget just long enough. Sometimes we return for a bit somewhere in our periphery...a memory sparked and then slowly fading away again like a rising sun and then a new moon.

I'm in acceptance.

I took these still photos last summer in one of my favorite spots. Everything is so lush and full this time of year and I welcome these months not forgetting the blistering cool of winter.

My eyes delight at the play of textures and shapes that dance in the natural light. Nature is so majestically beautiful with every glorious flaw.

Our lives are like this-flawed, yet beautiful or should we say beautifully flawed. We are reconstructed, reimagined and reborn over and over again.

As I was preparing these images to publish today I just intuitively thought back to last summer. For some odd reason a song from the 80's by The Motels came to mind and the lyrics...and then suddenly, last summer...just came so effortlessly that I thought I must look them up and share them here.

Suddenly Last Summer

The Motels

It happened one summer, it happened one time

It happened forever, for a short time

A place for a moment, an end to a dream

Forever I loved you, forever it seemed...