Sunday, March 17, 2019
Early yesterday, the dogs began barking, Peaches started screaming, and so, clearly something outside wasn’t right. Aha! Just beyond my window a tall doe nibbled bird seed from a feeder. Coming out of the most severe weeks of winter and looking very thin, she was positioned for a photo op. Just as my finger pressed the capture button, something made her look around and look directly at me. She took off, one of her rear legs not working quite normally. I wished that she had finished that bird seed or anything else she might have found. In case she might return, I filled the feeders.
Just days ago, our temperatures averaged 25 to 35 degrees with snow falling often. Yesterday, the temperature climbed almost to 80 degrees! For sure, the time had come to go outside looking again for spring. I picked up a camera and invited Peaches along. He hopped onto my shoulder, we went searching.
I knew we wouldn’t find anything new and green, so decided that anything I chose to photograph could represent spring. How about this couple, strolling along in the warm weather!
At the intersection, they turned right and Peaches and I went left. I had in mind a nearby old barn which had belonged to a neighbor who raised cattle. I’d driven by it recently on a day with light rain, and that moist light made the wood’s aged and damaged colors seem stunning. On this dry day, they looked a little more bland but still interesting. The building is a relic and I’m happy to have captured it at last.
Nearby were signs of spring–a chipmunk and a woodchuck (Marmont), both scurrying away too quickly for me to capture. Peaches, on my shoulder, arm, or hanging off on an article of my clothing, slows the process. On seeing one of my all-time favorites, a Robin, wonderful hunter, doing its thing, I knew its occasional pauses would lend time to aim and adjust a lens.
A bit farther along, my camera’s capable z00m lens brought from far north a sight of hulking cinder cone. It didn’t look familiar but I snapped it, would figure out later what the rise might be. Later, at home and looking very closely, I could see on its top line a very faint capture of radio signalling apparatus. Those identified my picture.
There’s much to see while out wandering around, and on a desperately-needed warm day, just about anything enhances a spring mood.
Seeing no green didn’t matter in the wonderful warmth outside. Peaches chatted with passers-by with his repetitive, “Hello, hello!” or “Goodby, goodby!”
Dear Friends, Wishing you a great outside enjoying the many visible wonders. Diana
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