Too precious to hold

Sometimes in life, you come across something that is too precious to hold, to delicate to keep, too impossible to maintain. A perfect rose, the water from a turquoise sea, a sunset.

You have to let it go.

Or learn to capture it in creative ways, and risk compromising the perfection of it.

The beauty of it will stay with you always.

Above: the Star of Jerusalem, which only flowers in the dark, is best seen at midnight, and shuts its petals by sunrise...