In the Blink of an Eye

You snooze, you lose.  Take a little bit of time, and it all changes. 

In the garden, one day it is ripe and delicious-looking, ready to eat (even if there were only 4 of them, barely enough for a taste)...

Long beans - ready for harvesting

...and a day later, it is aged and turned to seed.

Sad, dried, shriveled long beans, post-harvest

The most lovely, new, perfect little bitter melon blossom can shrivel in the wind and fall off by day's end.

And then, par for the course in New York, a lovely, serene river view can disappear into the big black hole behind uber-luxury high rise development before you ever get a chance to really enjoy it.  (Funny thing, all those super-rich people who buy into all those fancy schmancy new buildings seem to want that same river view that formerly belonged to their more modest-height, older construction neighbors.... Well, I guess to be fair, my sliver of river view only came about to begin with because the developer knocked down the predecessor building to put up his big new behemoth; it was only ever going to be mine temporarily - it suddenly appeared one day, and then a few months later, gone.)


So the takeaway is: Carpe diem - Seize the day!  Try to live in the moment.  Act quickly.

Easy to say, hard to do.  Hence, my continuing search for balance....

(Which would include, among other things, this blog - a hobby to keep track of a hobby, a way to get a little more tech-savvy, and today, trying to figure out why I can't add more photos to this post - and not succeeding at that, but going ahead and publishing anyway... letting this go.)