Robert Shafer Photography
Regensburg
If I look to my left I see a winterscape–snow, bare-limbed trees, ice on the birdbath. To my right, the bowl of ham and black-eyed peas I had for lunch. In front of me, a photo shot in October more than three years ago.
I’m about as removed as possible from this glimpse of a garden hidden away somewhere in a medieval city in Bavaria. Removed in time, in space, in culture. And yet I know that garden; I know it emotionally. I’m intimately familiar with its casual air of disrepair, the brownish scent of the slight coating of dust, the implied suggestion of turning leaves that time is running out to enjoy the garden. Time is always running out.
Sitting here in the winter, comfort food at hand, I find myself wishing I listened more closely to that same suggestion from my local garden, that I’d held onto October just a little bit longer. Time was running out, and I just didn’t notice.
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