Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moment

I want to step back into my childhood.  Even if it is for just a fleeting moment.  

When I saw the theme for this week’s challenge, I thought long and hard about what a fleeting moment means to me.

To catch a glimpse of, a hint of, a whiff of, something - for a very short period of time.

When I happened across this open field later on the same day that the challenge theme was released – I was instantly taken back to my days spent as a kid, up north where we had a cottage.  There were lots of fields like this one, wild with long grass and completely undisturbed.

This was my domain.

Now that I’m “all grown up” – I can honestly say that what I miss most about my childhood is the freedom I felt running around, practising my acrobatics and just being – FREE.

I thought, what a wonderful opportunity this is to re-capture that feeling.  To go tumbling through the grass, feeling the earth and breathing in the warm summer air – just one more time, like old times.

It felt awesome!

(besides all of that, a fleeting moment was all I could hold this handstand-front flip-cartwheel for!  It’s been a long time since I was in gymnastics…)

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03 Jul This entry was published on July 3, 2012 at 9:04 pm. It’s filed under Photography, Writing and tagged childhood, field, fleeting moment, freedom, nature, Photography, postaday, summer, the daily post, Weekly Photo Challenge, wordpress. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.