Valentine from a lover's full heart

As Valentine's Day - Heart Day - approaches, and shortly beyond it the ten-month anniversary of Timm's passing, this next batch of photos is a bouquet from Timm's wide-angle sensibilities: the fullness of a life.

Places sublime, people at work and play, animals at rest, the most vibrant spectra and hues of color serenely in place, as if life were a smile, a kiss. Here is where Timm is most confidently and home as the lover, serving up these frames of fullness which overflowed from the perplex well of his heart.

The frames overlap each other, like petals of a flower, each more rich and dewy and dappled and fragrant than the last, opening a further, more sublime reach, a deeper region of his heart, itself revealing more folds, greater scent, wilder color ...

Enough: I've said much the same thing so many times and in the end the only thing words can do is trail off into ellipses, leaving off where Timm departed, relying upon all of these images as witness to a magnitude, a full and grateful and loving heart, that depth and clarity which was Timm's, at least here, in the seeing ...