Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal

Renewal… replenish, regenerate, rejuvenate or restore…
This week’s photo challenge was indeed a mental test, for me anyway. I considered a photograph of me in a warm tub of bubbles recharging my chakra with a glass of champagne but no such photo exits. I know that to be true because I rarely bathe and my chakra eloped with a bottle of Brut one dead winter night many Decembers’ ago.
There are a few photos of hubby napping in his recliner that seemed fitting but he wasn’t too fond of the idea. It’s not that I caught him drooling and snores can’t be heard in a snapshot. I think he’s concerned people will think he is Salman Rushdie and send a rocket into our living room. That or ask him for an autograph. He would prefer the rocket.
So with the first two options off of the table I mulled over the theme again.
Renewal… replenish, regenerate, rejuvenate or restore…
My thoughts continually returned to Spring, the natural season of renewal. To new blooms and young butterflies, abandoned cocoons and Cicada’s emerging. So I rummaged through my jump drives, blew off the digital dust and here you have it. My take on this week’s photo challenge: renewal.

Just one more bug…

I am not an aspiring entomologist it’s just that bugs keep getting in front of my camera. I’m not a real photographer either but it does help quiet my mind when I take a break from writing. I saw this Cicada clinging to a Crepe Myrtle on my last walk at dusk and just had to share it. Now I’m going to get busy writing and leave the bugs alone but I reserve the right  to renege on the latter.

Cicada Emerging photography by Janna Hill