the snowberry

i really can come up with no reason for my love of snowberries. i have always found myself drawn to their beauty. i love how just one berry can be sitting on top of a bare thin branch, or sometimes huge clumps hang. i love how my children grab handful after handful and have berry fights with them while we walk through the forest. i love how they find their favorites and then ask me to put the special berry in my pocket. i oblige their wish, and a day or two later i feel something in my pocket and i squish it and it pops. and i find myself laughing in a sort of, annoyed at myself, sort of way. seriously, why wouldn't i just toss it onto the ground when they were not looking. as if they are going to ask me for their berry an hour later. it has never happened. but i have a gooey squishy berry now in the pocket of my favorite jacket...

i found these berries two days ago, when we took the kids to mt doug park to drop our pumpkins into the pumpkin grave yard. it was snowberry heaven. the path was covered with a gorgeous layer of leaves after the windstorm. i have truly come to appreciate the true beauty of each moment, each season. i miss the light airy feeling of the summer sun, but i love the complex rich tones that fall photography brings. 

Comments

[Kim Kalyn]

Beautiful. I was admiring these berries while shooting an e-session at Mt. Doug Park today. Too funny! I love how delicate they look in the second photo.

[Shannon]

Beautiful -- just love the simplicity of the images.

[Maria Hays]

These are gorgeous!! I am so in love with our processing and perspectives.