Sensitive and poetic treatment there Don, atmospheric and some very touching. Regardless of how the deck is shuffled, there is always a story. Well done.
Don, I went back and forth looking at these landscapes in time and then I made a card game in my mind and rearranged the full house, the two pairs, the two of a kind….and found little melody
the Ace
and now wait for the poet to rename them and come up with a different rhyme
Glad to see you back and participating in the photo essay side challenge. Some terrific images in this collection. A few that linger longer in my mind are "charcoal", "my heart melts", and "ripples". Have you considered combining poetry and images? Seems like a nice fit for your work.