Tuesday Muse: A moment

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

― Eudora Welty

I’m joining Nancy of A Rural Journal for Tuesday Muse.

Leaf on leaf: Tuesday muse

"Leaf on leaf"

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

― Henry David Thoreau

I’m joining Tuesday Muse with Nancy of A Rural Journal.

Photo: Sunday afternoon

I don’t usually post on Tuesdays, but this week I decided to join Tuesday Muse, a meme hosted by Nancy of A Rural Journal, who also hosts Random 5 Friday.

I’ve been taking more photographs for the last several months. In doing so, I’ve begun to notice things I never noticed before.

With that extra attention comes more opportunities to practice mindfulness, being in the moment, seeing what’s in front of me.

That’s a very positive thing for me because anxiety and worry are often centered not on the present but on the past or imagined future.

Here’s my first photo for Tuesday Muse. Thanks for hosting, Nancy!

 

"Broad Street, Sunday afternoon."

This is a view of Broad Street in Altavista. I took the photo looking down from the library, which is perched at the top of the street.

If you follow the yellow lines all the way to the end of the street, and cross the step-bridge over the railroad tracks, you’ll be in English Park and just a short walk from the Staunton River.

What sights have you enjoyed lately where you live?