Every summer, every day at 4:30 in the morning, my cousins awake. They run to the lavender field with buckets and sickles to cut, pick and gather the fragrant, violet flowers before the hot Eastern Washington sun becomes too unbearable to continue. As the sun rises, the honey bees return to work and their hum is multiplied by the thousands. It's almost deafening, but in a good way. Being 30 miles away from the nearest city gives anyone the chance to escape both physically and mentally from the industrial, smog-field streets. Take a deep breath, get your hands dirty and don't mind the bees - They won't bother you as they have better things to do.
13 responses
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Leticia Arballo gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Beautiful shot. The image is clear and the color is perfect.
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Lauren Hotson added a link (21 Nov 2008):
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Talon gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Beautiful - I can smell the lavender. Wonderful shot. What a wonderful place to have to escape to!
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Emerald England gave props (21 Nov 2008):
I adore this :)
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Steve Baker gave props (21 Nov 2008):
That makes our small lavendar patch look like puny! I love it.
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Peterson, Dave Peterson gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Awesome!
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Billy Howard gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Lovely image with beautiful words.
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Sarah Hawkins gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Rad image. =]
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Thomas Hartmann gave props (24 Nov 2008):
great shot, they need to work on smell-cameras...
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Lauren Hotson said (24 Nov 2008):
Thanks for all the kind words. :] This is one of my personal favourite photos, and I agree, Thomas, that smell-cameras (or scratch n sniff photos perhaps) should be invented. :P
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Balaji Devaraju said (8 Jun 2009):
never seen anything better! amazing shot!
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Gregory Peters gave props (8 Jun 2009):
stunning
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Hunaid H gave props (17 Sep 2009):
aah nice work
