"Corner Daffodils"

[Khaos]

There's a daffodil field in a local park that I used to visit when I was younger. Unfortunately our memories from when we were children tend to lend them selves to a much more larger and majestic side so when we revisit the place of those memories we are shocked and sometimes disappointed in how things are not as "grand" as we remembered.

The field is still found as very pretty to most who visit, but to me it was too small with too few daffodils compared to what I remembered. That was topped with a very cold and dreary day due to that cold spell much of the NE US went through, effectively almost eliminating Spring.

So I tried to capture the beauty of the flower but also show the cold that encroached it as well as my disappointment.

http://creative-khaos.smugmug.com/photos/161190640-L.jpg

[saurora]

Keith if you hadn't told us the story, I would have sensed extreme disappointment or sadness just by your shot. So in effect, you succeeded in conveying your feelings that day. I was smiling in agreement as I read about how grandiose things appear when we are children and then go back to find they aren't as spectacular as we remember. I go back once in awhile to the street I grew up on. In my mind I can envision it still as a child walking up the long sidewalks lined with jacaranda trees. To me the blocks were long and the trees and houses were huge. Now, I can hardly recognize where I'm at. The houses are dinky, the blocks are short....well, you get the picture! It is neat to think that those same bulbs are producing flowers still. I hope you enjoy them more next year!

[Browndog]

When I was a young boy and my older sister was getting married and leaving home my dad told her the well worn saying, "You can never go home". I was somewhat confused by that thinking he was saying she could not come back home if life did not go well for her while at the same time I knew in my heart that our dad would always welcome his kids back home.

When I grew up I experienced and have proven that saying for myself and have past it on to my kids and grand kids... "You can never go home".

You've captured that saying in this shot.

Well Done:thumb