Tina‘s theme for the week is Ephemeral – “lasting for a very short time“. A wonderful challenge, so, please visit her beautiful site and get inspired!
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death.
— Muriel Barbery
Autumn is the season with ephemeral written all over it. We are reminded every day, every hour every minute – Of Life and Death, and the short moments of beauty, joy and sorrow.
Mother Nature is the gentle reminder of how short our time here is. She speaks to us in every detail, telling us we should treasure every moment we get.
Something as simple as a frosty day – I love those days – but when the sun reaches that first frosty straw, its white crystals will be gone within minutes. Before our very eyes.
A misty Autumn morning and its special light doesn’t last more than minutes. I still want to capture that moment, but it gets harder as I age and no longer spring that happily out of bed early mornings.
We all need Beauty – but beauty is always ephemeral, so we portray it with our cameras, pencils and paint. Nature, sunsets and sunrises…the serenity. Futile, but still, that is what little we can do to make it stay, make it last, make us remember.
Finally, a butterfly – the epitome of ephemeral. In Sweden we say guldvinge – golden wing. This beauty was captured in the Pyrenees some 15 years ago when hiking a dewy morning in the mountain valleys.
Thank you, Tina – and be sure to link your post to Tina’s original post and to use the Lens-Artists Tag to help us find you. Many thanks to Ritva and to all of her respondents for last week’s Street Details challenge. A fun theme that I really liked! Finally we hope you’ll join us next week when Egidio will lead us once again on his Through Brazilian Eyes site. Until then, as always please stay safe, be kind and enjoy the moment.
Leya 
Ann, these are fantastic. I don’t have a favourite, What a great panel of images 🙂
Thank you, Steve – a beautiful challenge.
Serene and beautiful post, Ann-Christine. Your photos remind me of how much I actually love Autumn, I juts don’t like what comes after!
Well…I guess we will end up with only two seasons soon…
It’s going that way, isn’t it?
Yes, I’m afraid so.
GREAT photos. 👏
Thanks, John!
Such a beautiful gallery and sentiments Ann-Christine 💖✨️
Thank you!
Great post. ”Mother Nature is the gentle reminder of how short our time here is.” ”The stone relic of the structure reminds me of my younger hiking days when, in the spring, I would encounter a spot in the forest with a few tumbled stones and blooming daffodils and maybe an ancient blooming lilac performing as if it was their duty. You know that some pioneer wife planted them long ago.
Yes, I know the feeling! I have found some of this too, but in old farmsteads. Its a lovely find.
Finely wrought, are the words that come to mind, A-C. Your photos are exquisitely composed and with wise words to accompany them.
Thank you, Tish – much appreciated!
Not surprisingly your post is lovely Ann-Christine although with a touch of melancholy at the passage of time. Treasure every moment indeed – as the butterflies demonstrate, life is short but a life well-lived is a marvelous blessing whatever its length. Your images always remind me of the latter. ❤️
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A lovely gallery, Ann-Christine! I don’t always think of snow and ice as ephemeral here in North Dakota, but you reminded me that those early and late frosts are truly beautiful, and disappear with the warming of the day.
Thank you, John.
Ann-Christine, I love your beautiful thoughts and images.
A beautiful post with lovely images to remind us to appreciate the wonders we see around us before they disappear 💖
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Beautiful! Dear Ann-Christine.
In Goethes ‘Faust’, it’s written that if you say ‘moment, stay a while, you are so beautiful’ then your soul will be owned by the devil.
The Fab Four of Cley
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OK, then be it so…
Fabulous gallery
Thanks, Sheree!
So much here to enjoy and appreciate. But you have to be there to capture those fleeting joys. Thank you for being ready with your camera!
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Frost is such a rare sight here, but you brought it to me, Ann-Christine. What a lyrical, wonderful post. Enjoy each moment xx
♥ Nowadays it is not often here either…
Your photos bring us beautiful fleeting moments, the 🦢 in the blue moment for some reason resonated with me. But I easily agree with your fleeting moments.
Thank you, Ritva – swans are not really my usual photo favourites – but the stillness and the white and blue made me choose it!
Gorgeous images!
Thank you, Dawn!
Mother Nature teasing us with a glimpse of beauty.
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I love what you said about us all needing beauty. Your photos bring some of that to life!
Thank you, Nora – then I am happy!
Ann-Christine, what a joy it is to read your post’s beautiful words and see those marvelous photos. This gallery is superb.
Thank you, Egidio – loved this challenge.
A beautiful post, capturing the theme perfectly
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Thank you for the beautiful moments captured as one moment transcended into the next . . .
Thank you, Ejha! Always appreciate your comments!
Beautiful photos!
Thank you so much!
Wonderful photos and musings on the ephemeral nature of life, especially in fall.
Thank you, Brad!