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I am also fascinated with water, Michela. We don't have ditches like you describe, but we do have tiny springs and streams in the mountains. I spend so much time looking at, talking to, and photographing them!

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Hi Sarah, it’s good to meet a kindred spirit. There’s something magical about the sound as well as the sight of water. How wonderful that yours runs free.

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Always in awe of your captures and words that accompany them✨blissful reading

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Thank you so much for your kind words Amaranta, they are very welcome as this day begins.

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A welcome diversion, indeed. Thank you for sharing such beautiful words and imagery.

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It’s my pleasure. If this has lifted the mood at all, then I’m very happy.

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Glorious as always. Lovely to hear and see. perfect meditative diversion. Thank you.

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Thank you so much Debbie.

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Most welcome.

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I loved the ambient sounds in your voice over Michela! It sent my mind racing with ideas as it is such a wonderful way to convey an atmosphere and add a kind of background to your words. Your voice is so soothing. And these pictures are amazing, the blue one and the encore one are my favorites!

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Thanks so much Mailys. If only it was possible to incorporate scent too, I would love to smell the maquis again!

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I wish I could do that for you! Engaging the 5 senses of the readers is really something I’d like to achieve with my publication and your post truly inspired me.

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The simplicity and beauty you have captured Michela! A soothing balm. Healing. Thank you.

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You’re very welcome Gaye, I’m glad this letter has had that effect for you.

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Michela, Thank you for this. Simply beautiful and so needed. The blue photo - wow! The color.

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Thank you Pamela. If this has helped in the slightest, I am glad. Yes, the reflected colour in June was astonishing in its intensity.

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Love the conversations with water. Here the river is rising -- a little at the moment but its voice filling.

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Thanks Jan. ‘Its voice filling’ is a beautiful way to put it.

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Beautiful. Love the ambient sounds as well as the evocative photographs.

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Thanks Julie. The geese were an unexpected bonus. After lunch, I saw the same / another skein going north!

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Great line: This smallness swallows sky

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Thank you!

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This is so beautiful - you have such a unique style of communication.

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Thanks Jared, you’re very kind.

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