I didn’t travel far for this week’s travel theme, hosted each week by Ailsa. Nor did I have to click my heels together three times to find simplicity in my own backyard.
Simplicity: Lotus Bud
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin”.
But flowers aren’t really that simple are they? Look closely to see nature’s complexities. Those small white dots are small spider eggs – a portrait of nature’s glory: interdependent, simple, beautiful.
Below is a different edit of the same photo because I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Tomorrow perhaps the lotus will bloom and I can observe again the simple and the complex in the bloom of a flower.
Lotus Sketch
Have a photograph that represents Simplicity? Join the fun: post it and link to Ailsa’s blog, Where’s My Backpack. Here are links to just a few who are participating this week:
- 7-12-13 Travel Theme: Simplicity (quotidianhudsonriver.com)
- Travel Theme: Simplicity (francineinretirement.wordpress.com)
- Travel Theme: Simplicity (beyondpaisley.net)
- Travel Theme (Simplicity) (mrscarmichael.wordpress.com)
- Simplicity – Ailsa’s WTT (ouchmybackhurts.wordpress.com)
- Travel theme: Simplicity (lucidgypsy.wordpress.com)
Your backyard flowers are so beautiful and I love that couldn’t leave “well enough alone” and made a new version! A very beautiful post about creation!
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Beautiful in its simplicity. 🙂
The sketch version is simply beautiful!
I love the photo Anne but the sketch…OMG…amazing
Beautiful images, like the sketch version. 🙂
Beautiful! I love the edit.
The complexity of flowers reminds me of just how marvelous is our created world!
Love your ‘sketch’ of the lotusbud!
BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS! i LOVE THEM BOTH! Love the scriptural quote as a reminder. Thanks for the pingback.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Both pics are lovely. IMHO simplicity is as much a state of mind of the observer as in the thing observed. Your post illustrates this.
Beautiful before and after the edit 🙂