Thursday, June 21, 2007

The long and short of it

The fallen tree amid the bright spring flowers led a long and useful life as a member of the forest. The foreground flowers displayed their brilliant colors throughout the woods for a couple of weeks and then were gone.

Which is more valuable: A long, dependable, utilitarian existence or a brilliant but short life span?

Yes.

Click on picture to enlarge. Photograph © 2007 James Jordan.

3 comments:

Miss Trashahassee said...

Yes.

One word said it all, didn't it?!

BFF,
Miss T

JAM said...

It looks like a fairy tale world from a movie. Beautiful.

Rick Rockhill said...

blog's looking good! I enjoy keeping up with your photos. sto pby and say hi sometime