Succulent Sunday: The Little Things

Photo by Meg Boscov

[Editor’s Note: This ongoing Sunday feature pairs photographs from Meg Boscov with a thought (or two) from the managing editor about focusing on tiny things to find something significant. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Here, Meg Boscov be-holdin’ her camera to find such beauty in an early spring garden.

 

 

When I looked at that same garden, here is what I saw:

 

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you,” Andy Warhol once said. That is Sunday’s message from the succulents.

 

♥

 

Meg Boscov lives and works outside of Philadelphia where she continues to pursue her careers in animal-assisted education & dog training, along with her burgeoning interests in photography & gardening.

 

 

Check out the write-up of the journal in The Writer.

Matter Press recently released titles from Meg Boscov, Abby Frucht, Robert McBrearty, Tori Bond, Kathy Fish, and Christopher Allen. Click here.

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