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Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: V is for Velvet

by Myra Garces-Bacsal
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Ever since we joined Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge, I look forward to Tuesdays. This week, the letter is V and the theme that I chose is Velvet to stand for the velvety feel of flower petals. These are photos taken by our featured photographer, Elena Yamamoto Flores.

Our featured photographer, Elena Yamamoto Flores

Velvet

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
― Edna St. Vincent Millay “Afternoon on a Hill”

“I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,’ said Priscilla.
‘Then your soul is a golden narcissus,’ said Anne, ‘and Diana’s is like a red, red rose. Jane’s is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.’
‘And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,’ finished Priscilla.” 
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” 
― Don Marquis

How about you? What is the flower of your soul? Do leave me a link to your V photo for the week and I’d be sure to drop by and visit.

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About Myra Garces-Bacsal

Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

www.gatheringbooks.org

6 comments on “Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: V is for Velvet”

  1. Claudia
    May 29, 2012

    Beautiful photos and quotes! 🙂 Here’s my V challenge entry: http://motherwifestudentworker.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/a-z-archive-v-challenge-video-games

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  2. frizztext
    May 29, 2012

    perfect VELVET flowers …

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  3. TBM
    May 29, 2012

    Great photos. I have a bio on Millay that I keep meaning to read.

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