This photograph was taken 18 years ago...where does time go?
I realized in looking at this that not only have the members of my family been getting older...right before my eyes, so has the neighbourhood in which we live.
Many of the houses have gone through "face lifts" of new windows, new driveways, new roofs, new front doors, changes in paint colour or reapplications of paint. Cars have been upgraded to newer models. Families have moved out, new families have moved in.
The trees are older and while they still shed their leaves..there aren't as many of them as there once were. The trunks are thicker, the branches thicker but also in some cases more brittle.
How wonderful to note that while the seasons come and go like clock work and they remain the same year after year, nothing else does in quite the same way.
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It is so wonderful to think about that! Everything around us is changing... yet without fail, each season comes and gives us it's blessings. Not much is so dependable like that in our lives... except God's love! ♥
Love that maple! I do miss the Indian Summer colours - we don't have quite the same "blaze" in Europe.
Oh I feel exactly this way! We have been in our home for 21 years...I know the season on my little plot of earth, where to plant what...it's comforting.
**blows kisses** Deb
waxing nostalgic again...sigh...lovely.
To everything turn, turn, turn. =]
You always give me something to think about. And today...a song turning over in my mind. Happy Sunday!
This makes me want to go dig out my old photos. Oh, I wish I had days to do all the things I want to do.
Very good post, as if it would not be! Well said too, it is funny, and kind of sad, how time flies by.
Sending love sweet friend.
I am so glad we have new experiences all the time! I am a person who loves her own little rut. I have not always been thrilled with change, but how boring would life be without new challenges and outlooks? Maybe even my attitude is changing:>)
Hi Sherry :D So nice to visit you after my long vacation! I love looking at old photographs and seeing the changes in not only ourselves, but our surroundings. Time does march on. What pretty trees on your street too! I love it!
Wishing you a Happy Day!
Hugs!
Kelly
Our surroundings do change so much -people places trends etc ..
but i`m hoping in many many years to come -that people can enjoy the seasons like we have done -
climate change is having an effect - and it would be sad not to experience what mother nature does naturally !
Nothing reminds us of the changes we don't always see like looking back at old photographs -- it never ceases to amaze me (especially how much older I am looking these days!).
Thought provoking beautifully written post that allows each of us to think of the changes in our lives. To me, that blazing tree represents all the beauty life has to offer, even through the hard times. While I would never have chosen to loose my hearing at 39, and going 13 years before a cochlear implant gave me back half of my life in the hearing world, I have been blessed through the heartbreak of it all.
Oh I sure like your last statement ... isn't that the truth ... nothing else is quite the same.
I must say that It is called life. Time will go but It showed so many happy moments also. We should enjoyed every moment of life.
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