#38 · Aug 13–17 · Beginning of Autumn
Evening cicadas begin to sing
寒蝉鳴
Higurashi naku · Evening cicadas sing
Warm garden or forest edge at dusk; a cicada if possible, otherwise the still scene that suggests sound.
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A slower way of seeing seasonal change.
Photographed by Michael Gebert
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