The mist hadn’t decided to leave yet.
Light enters the tea garden not as announcement but as inquiry — slipping between trunks, testing the ground, uncertain of its welcome. The trees hold their own shadow even as gold spills through them. Dew on the leaves catches what it can before the day hardens into certainty.
This is what morning looks like before it makes up its mind.
Moynaguri Tea Estate, Shalbahan, Panchagarh, Bangladesh on December 26, 2023 with Sony A7R5

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