Fall is Here!

I spent the afternoon photographing my childhood home garden.  The fall colors and natural patterns were so beautiful.  During these quarantine times, it's easy to focus on the limitations of the world. The lack of human connection and gatherings, social distancing and being isolated.  Today, I chose to focus on the small intricacies and beauty around me and I was not disappointed.  So many of these photos have stories: the persimmon cookies my mom makes every fall, the mini succulent garden my sister planted, my dad's grape vine that we use for Middle Eastern family traditional food, the plants I grew up seeing every day throughout each season. Everything is paired with a memory and emotion, more so than I thought.  Being able to take the time and capture some of these memories was a wonderful welcome to the fall season and a reminder of the silver lining of this time: appreciating home, the people, and places that made me who I am today.