waiting for spring
February 23, 2007
Posted by Chris @ 3:41 pm
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Love your blog! I live in TX and we think we’re freezing when the temps drop below 60…but this picture is so beautiful it makes me wonder why anybody would wish it away for spring.
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:46 pmNow that looks beautiful. I am so sick of our grey English winter. We’ve had one lot of snow that lasted a grand total of 8 hours overnight so no fun could be had in at all. I just wish it would stop raining!
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:46 pmthat must be the loneliest existence ever. A swing covered in snow…just pitiful!
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:55 pmCrisp crisp snow. Looks so clean.
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:05 pmBeautiful!
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:13 pmApparantly, we were thinking alike. Well, kind of…
http://mamat.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/for-wanting-of-spring/
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pmOoooh, beautiful….!
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pmLOVE, LOVE, LOVE this picture - what type of camera and lens did you use? Your blog is fantastic - you make me smile every day!
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pmChris, great picture…lonely little swing
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:17 pmWhat a beautiful picture!
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:44 pmWow, what a beautiful picture!
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pmOoo, ooo, ooo, I just thought of something! You should try to remember to go and get the same shot in the spring when it’s green and sunshiney! And then…post them together or something…I dunno….I’ll shut up now.
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:58 pmLove the picture of the swing and snow… as for your rocking chair story.. beautiful… what memeories.. have a great day
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:15 pmVery pretty, but I liked the one of you all bundled up the other day. This one is kind of lonely, though, but I really like it.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:16 pmOh I love the picture. I hope to one day see snow like this.
I, living in Florida do not know such thing as snow.
I wish I was there with a hot cup of coffee. Instead it is 80ish today and our air in on.
Ugh!
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:16 pmWhat an amazing picture!!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:49 pmI love that picture. As a recent transplant in North Carolina from Michigan, I am really missing the snow this winter. I don’t miss driving in it, but I do miss being able to play out in it with the kids.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:22 pmBeautiful picture.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:22 pmBEAUTIFUL picture — you have a great eye. I agree with Lisa, it would be really cool to do this picture in the different seasons. Then you could frame them and group them together on a wall. Pretty just thinking about it!
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 pmWhat a great photo.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:06 pmWhat a beautiful, beautiful photo! It’s perfect!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 pmOh my . . . that’s a “frame-able” one . . . absolutely beautiful. The light and shadows are perfect, nice shot!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 pmI want to crawl into that picture–we’ve had maybe 1 inch of snow all winter and it is totally depressing!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:43 pmugh i woke up to that too. realized dd1 has no boots so we had to shlep to the store to get her some to play
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:37 pmThat’s a beautiful picture. Did you actually go outside to take it?
February 24th, 2007 at 2:50 amThe artist in you lives on Chris
February 24th, 2007 at 9:34 amKeep these black and white shots in a file.
They’ll make a great one man show / coffee table book. Seriously, you have a real eye for composition.
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Wow, that’s beautiful. I agree with everyone who said take the same shot in summer, spring, and fall, have them framed and hang them as a grouping. Perhaps behind that lovely new leather couch????
February 24th, 2007 at 9:47 amChris, that would be fantatic blown up, matted and framed. It is really lovely.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:10 amGreat picture. Thank you.
February 24th, 2007 at 11:16 amStunning! Enlargement-worthy and frameworthy!
February 24th, 2007 at 11:35 amBeautiful. I miss snow, it hasn’t snowed here for almost 3 years.
February 24th, 2007 at 1:28 pmI like it too, but I think I prefer it alone (without the other seasons). I would go so far as to beg you NOT to display it with other pictures of the same spot in different seasons - that would really limit the scope to just “oh, look at the different seasons” - don’t you think? The title works so well with it - my first thought was the unseen children waiting to play on it, and then I thought of the swing not really having much purpose until the children can swing again, and then the trees sort of took over and it brought to mind the Oscar Wilde book “The Selfish Giant” and the garden being winter until the children could return. From there I went from literal to emotional and spiritual realms - so THAT is a piece of art that WORKS. By itself.
February 24th, 2007 at 3:17 pmThat is breathtaking!
February 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pmYou take the most beautiful photographs, Chris!
February 24th, 2007 at 7:50 pmI’m awestruck by God’s amazing creativity!! He does such beautiful things here, I honestly don’t think that I’ll be able to speak for, oh say, the first million or so years in Heaven. You had a wonderful eye for that shot :o)
February 24th, 2007 at 9:41 pmAbsolutely gorgeous picture.
(Hi, by the way…I came here from Darren.)
February 24th, 2007 at 10:01 pmThat’s beautiful. And awesome. But dude, so cold!
February 25th, 2007 at 12:02 amOh….~~~shudder~~~ icky icky icky. I hate winter, even when it is artfully framed and beautifully captured in a photo such as yours. The other day it was 70 degrees here (Oklahoma) and I took the kids on a picnic to the duckpond. Nyah!
February 25th, 2007 at 12:22 amBeautiful picture. I love reading your blog. One thing I love about art is in the interpretation. People can see sad, and lonely in this picture I see promise for the spring. For a warm sunny day while the swing eagerly awaits the laughter of a child.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:17 amWe have sooo much snow right now, and that would be great to get a pic like that, but I think our little toddler swing wouldn’t make for such a classic shot as yours! That pic is truely magazine worthy.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pmThat picture is amazing.
Although, I’m SO GLAD I don’t live there, because I don’t “do” snow.
February 25th, 2007 at 7:15 pmlove that picture..you have an eye for beauty and a talent for sharing it in the written word..Thanks for Keeping me sane.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pmI LOVE how you appreciate (and can pick out) the little things.
Thanks for being you!
February 26th, 2007 at 6:03 pmWow! An amazing picture and your title is so perfect!
February 27th, 2007 at 6:54 pmReminds me of home…
March 1st, 2007 at 7:01 amUgh. I saw this picture while I was in L.A. last week and said out loud, “I am NOT looking forward to going back to that.” And now here I am.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:59 am