Because small wonders surround me in the summer (and lead to a backlog which means I’ll be showing you beautiful small things well into next winter or beyond, I’ve decided to post any remaining unposted images that contain small wonders from my May week of magnificence along the shore’s Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid all in this post. (Probably best views in ‘full view’ mode since there are so many of these little beauties. Sorry: I just love beauty!)
The irises were abloom everywhere I went on that US visit in April and early May. This one was catching raindrops outside the National Aviary in Pittsburgh on May 4th :-).
Every photo in this post was taken between March and May, in NYC or the area in northern New Jersey which my mother called home for the last forty-five years. Having returned early from my work in Bangladesh in order to be with Mom, I’ve now seen this part of the US through a cold, snowy late winter and into a wet, green spring. Between trips around various parts of the city for medical appointments with Mom or meetings with friends and colleagues, I’ve been around much of Manhattan and northern NJ when the trees were bare and snow was on the ground, through the first blooming of snow-bells and forsythia, to this past week of alternating thunderstorms and clear skies with brilliantly green trees and now the irises starting to pop out. Before leaving this area for more or less the last time after clearing out Mom’s house, it seemed fitting to do a final ode to the sights and seasons of a region that I myself have also called either first or second home since Mom brought us here during the Ford administration…
(so much world, so little time....) 