Missed My Chance!

  Sometimes the world silently passes by us when we are occupied with other things.  Look down for a moment and, whoosh!, you have missed an important (or not so important) moment.  Here lately, my important moments revolve around critters and those, too, whoosh right on past without nary a notice. 

   Rare is the day when I do not have my camera with me while I am outside.  I carry the thing around like it is literally attached to my hand.  I feel lost without it but, this morning, I made a mad dash out to the garden without the trusty thing in hand.  Big mistake.  While I was hastily grabbing tomatoes from the plants in an effort to beat a threatening thunderstorm, several of the most beautiful, graceful critters on this old earth passed just a few yards from the garden.  A lovely doe and two yearlings meandered down along the marsh edge. Wow!  I was awestruck!  Then, I spied the buck halfway across the yard towards my brother's place.  The whole family just claimed the lower yard as their own and I am without the camera!

Deer track with 2 1/2 inch camera lens for size reference.  

   After missing the chance of a fantastic photo, I got to thinking about how missed chances happen far too often.  We get too hung up on the business of the day to take the time to be a part of life.  For the past few weeks, things have been a bit hectic around here with work being done on the Little Bayou House and with the garden being on overdrive.  I have not taken the time to really be a part of the life of the Bayou. That has to be remedied.  I figure that tomorrow is a good time to start my before dawn hikes once again.  It just takes getting up a bit earlier and stepping outside BEFORE starting those chores.  Unless, of course, another thunderstorm sweeps in from the Gulf.  Then...I will just have to be happy making those mad dashes out between the rains.  Hopefully, the deer will understand my plight and hang around a bit longer!  Pictures would be nice!