Every year we look forward to the trillium blooming. The first ones we usually notice are the flowers that bloom along the driveway. They let us know it’s time to do our spring walk around the woods to admire all the beauty.
This year I kept telling B that we would do our walk “soon.” Each day felt too busy for it. I’m grateful for the way that he helps bring me back into the present moment and reminds me of what is really important. My to-do list had all sorts of things on it, but you know what was most important that day? Our annual Trillium Walk!
If I was “too busy” every day to do it, we would miss the magic and have to wait another year for the trillium to come again. They do seem to bloom for awhile, but it’s amazing how days and weeks can fly by seemingly in the blink of an eye, and before you know it all the petals have faded away. We didn’t want to miss it.
We walked around the woods together, and I marveled at how a rainy overcast day makes the stark white of the petals so pronounced along the forest floor. The darker skies made the trillium flowers look like they were glowing all around the woods.
I share pictures here of the trillium every year, and I talk about it being magical, but I really mean it. That day in the woods it looked as if someone had sprinkled white glowing flowers all over the place, like something out of a fairytale.
I feel like the pictures never do them justice, can not fully capture the magic. I feel that way about nature’s beauty all the time. I will see something so beautiful, and grab my camera to share it, and feel like so much of what I am seeing and experiencing at the time doesn’t come through to the picture.
I’m sure there is plenty I could learn in the world of photography to help with that, but there is also an appreciation of beauty in the moment and an experiencing of something truly awe-inspiring and magical that isn’t captured in that way, but felt. I will do my best to keep sharing the magic anyway- through pictures and words- because this world is filled with so much beauty, and it’s a wonderful thing when we stop to admire it, even briefly.
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