363- Everything I Needed was on My Kitchen Counter

When picking up a new magazine, newspaper, craft book etc... I will always turn immediately to the back. I flip the pages from back to front--"always have, always..." "old dog-new tricks" "leopard's spots" and so on.

My photos will therefore be titled backwards. My 363rd picture is actually my third shot even though there are 365 days. You still with me?
Me neither, but some big dummy created a folder and renamed photos and now it's more trouble to go back and change everything. Yes, I realize it's only three photos, but it's done.

So,

photo 363, taken today when I looked up at the fading light and said, "Oh, oops, I need to shoot a photo!".
I donned my wellies (and my very attractive coat bearing my kids' football team emblem) over my church dress and crunched out into the snow covered fields.

I saw deer prints-- this deer has been eating plutonium or something because the prints are HUGE-- no deer though. There were mole holes, but they were nothing compared to what dots my garden. Birds were sparse, they must've been away for the holidays or something. Even the pigeons were scarce.

I carefully focused on clumps of ice balanced on dark green strands of grass, glistening in the last golden rays of the day. I took 3 photos with different white balance settings. Auto was boring, shade was warm and reflected the warmth of the setting sun, tungsten gave it a nice cold, bluish hue.

My walkabout took me through the fields surrounding the house and lead me familiarly back into my own garden-- where I finally got my shot. An odd angle of the mossy bottom of a pot holding the last of the summer heather.

I quickly headed into the house to upload my accomplishment and impulsively shot a picture of the flowers my friend brought to me on New Year's Day.
They remind me of the watercolour I painted for my mother while I was in college... the painting she hung in her room where the Arizona sunlight eventually erased all traces of colour.

But these flowers?
I captured them in a format that will never fade...


I could've saved a little bit of frozen toes if I had just stood in my kitchen for today's photo.

What did you do with your few extra minutes of sunlight today?