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.