I will touch a hundred flowers/ And not pick one.

Every few days during the past month, I have gone outside to seek out the spring's flowers when I got a particularly bad craving to smoke. I'm not a flower photographer. I'm not really even a still life photographer. But I've really enjoyed my macro lens in this project. And much as I joke here, spending my breaks in search of vivid color and otherworldly petal striations really has helped to distract me. It's been a reverent and meditative exercise. Whereas I might not suggest to someone else that they eat their weight in cookies to avoid smoking, I would definitely suggest that they go on a scavenger hunt such as this one. It's timely. It's sappy. It's the first step in making your own greeting cards.

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