i never really took many pictures.when my grandson was  born and my mom was ''snowbirding'' in the southwest she wanted pictures. i received  a mother's day gift of a camera i really began to photograph such variety of things and loved having a camera along as part of family gatherings or my exercise/physical therapy of walking/hiking.when mother, dealing with some major and chronic health issues , took to being at home most of the time and eventually being truly homebound in her illness. she always loved seeing  gardens and the trees and such around the city. she loved flowers. she had always raised flowers, i began to take photos of flowers to show her. i would photograph the spring flowering trees around town to share with her.over the years i brought her many pictures. some prints. mostly slide shows on tablet in electronic bright life. our last time together we looked at the hundreds of family and nature photos on my tablet.
and mom is gone now. there was still ice on the ground the day she died. it is now autumn, warm but clearly the change of another season is upon us. i see the season changing and i will be working backward here in blog where i still hold spring captures  and early summer glory to share, stored up  over the past two seasons,
beautifully, briefly the butterflies float and flit through the summer days, tomorrow to be but memory. thinking of mom ...

  

Sommerfugler

Butterflies