one in one we start
slowly unwinding we part
mother and daughter
violent storms weathered
unexpected twists and turns
draw us close again
Witnessing
ferns unfurling, daughters growing up, pushing away, reconnecting, pushing
away, reconnecting, this spiral dance of mothering, beautiful, painful, awful, awe-filled, all of us becoming.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Welcome to
Week 102
I Heart
Macro
"Pure
awareness transcends thinking... It allows you to look at the world once again
with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment
begins to reappear in your life."~Mark Williams and Danny Pennman, from Mindfulness An
Eight-Week Plan For Finding Peace In A Frantic World
It is time for YOU to share the love up-close with YOUR
I Heart Macro offerings!
Enjoy slowing down with your
camera, paying full attention, observing beauty and curiosities many people
pass right by. Your generosity of spirit and keen eyes may open the door to
miniscule miracles and mirth others would not have access to otherwise. Feel
free to include poetry, prose and thoughts your macro photo or series
inspire(s) in you. Writing is completely optional for participation.
Straight out of the camera (SOC), edited, color, black and white, anything goes
as long as you bring the viewer near to whatever it is that drew your heart's
attention and "woke you up" to full presence.
Please
link back to my blog either by copying and pasting the button provided
above on your post, or by linking the words "I Heart Macro" back to
my blog with this link:
By
sharing the link, visitors to your blog will learn about this meme and have a
chance to participate as well if they so choose.
Visit each other...
S p r
e a d the LOVE. Thanks :-)
linking to:
haiku my heart
The I Heart Macro Linky opens tonight,
Sunday evening at 8pm EST
and remains open for you to share your close-up images all week long.
Marvelous treatment of the unfurling fiddleheads, and thanks for sharing your inspired words.
ReplyDeleteAmazing shots of the fern!
ReplyDeleteSplendid series showing the unfurling of the fiddleheads, and such inspired words!
ReplyDeleteAmazing pictures! It reminds me about an embryo...
ReplyDeleteLinky don't working, but well, that's life!
Love and blessings
To see these unfurling is its own tiny miracle. Awesome macros Laura, absolutely stunning.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots of the development of this plant !
ReplyDeleteStill no linky now on Monday
I like your pictures. The fern looks like felted and the leave pop our really great.
ReplyDeleteHi! Are you fine? I enjoyed your photos very much. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful picture!
ReplyDeleteChristine
A beautiful light in this fern series!
ReplyDeleteAmazing photo's!!
ReplyDeleteOh Laura this is wonderful...so true your prose and poem. And how stunning these pics of the ferns as they begin to unfurl. Really superb. Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteLovely images, Laura! Thanks for hosting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for invitation. I've linked up another post than that, on which you've commented...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful close-ups of baby ferns.... They bring us back to Mother Earth while being unspoiled !
ReplyDeleteYour fern photos are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThe resurrection ferns are beautiful illustrations for your Mothers Day meditation. Lovely. I thought I had linked last night but I guess it disappeared into cyberspace. I will try again.
DeleteBEAUTIFUL photos. I especially love the mother and daughter ones, looking at each other! I remember the pain of daughters breaking away - they seem to have to do it so fiercely......but very soon, they are back, thankfully. I posted a fiddlehead fern poem the other day......was so cool to see them in here.
ReplyDeletesome really cool shots here!
ReplyDeleteOh wow...sigh...these are magical, Laura...birth of the fern will never cease to amaze me. ♥
ReplyDeletestunning captures!
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed. Amazing photos. Bravo !
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful, Laura!
ReplyDeleteHave a lucky week!
xxx Britta
I love seeing the tiny leaves entwined, then unfurled; your analogy is heart-warming. Reconnecting, mothers and daughters as friends, is one of those priceless treasures.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous shots of the furled ferns!
ReplyDeleteThose ferns are positively fetal. Beautiful seeing, Laura.
ReplyDeleteYour fern macros are so amazing, the stages of the fiddleheads from very fuzzy to the translucent leaves appearing are so pretty, and all the curly leaves opening into fronds are fascinating.
ReplyDeleteHello Laura, your images are just stunning. Beautiful captures.. I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day.. Enjoy your new week!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos, Laura.
ReplyDeleteDoro
Magic! :)
ReplyDeleteAll your pictures represent perfect artistry in the art of photography!
ReplyDeleteFerns...amazing ferns! Stunning to see them from so up-close in images that I'll appreciate that , one day, I'll have to learn of how to capture (them) through my camera lens. Till then, I'm thankful that you've share them with us... Always, I feel inspired by your dynamic work and so creative!
ReplyDeleteWarm greetings and hugs! Alexa T
Marvelous fern portraits !! Love this so old plants very much!!
ReplyDeleteWow your pictures are fantastic! What a miracle it is to witness the nature's reborn.
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos.
ReplyDeleteluv your precious words
ReplyDelete"Witnessing ferns unfurling, daughters growing up, pushing away, reconnecting, pushing away, reconnecting, this spiral dance of mothering, beautiful, painful, awful, awe-filled, all of us becoming."
so absolutely true of mother/daughter relations
have a good weekend
much love...
Simply exquisite words and images. A fern unspiraling, inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThat is so beautiful...nature unfolding, giving birth, meeting the world.
ReplyDeleteOh wow...I have never seen them in a series like this. Pure magic... You captured it so well Laura.... hugs...Michelle
ReplyDeleteThose ferns are so beautiful. Delicate and perfect.
ReplyDeleteLaura, these ferns unfolding... are amazing. Pushing, pulling, life growing, daughter's leaving the nest... your love holds it all...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fantastic photographs and haiku Laura. Those ferns are so intricate. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post.
ReplyDeleteFantastic series of macros! Very nicely done!
ReplyDeletesmall world unfurling:)
ReplyDeleteLovely haiku and so true about relationships ~ especially Mother and Daughters ~ Divine Photography ~ they look like fiddleheads to me ~
ReplyDeleteHappy Weekend to you,
artmusedog and carol
Beautiful dance of life you show here with the fiddle ferns.
ReplyDeletethe contours of a mothers heart-
ReplyDeletethrive everywhere.