The Bottle Captured the Sun

  Some days you just have to shirk your chores and take a hike.  I have been sanding, painting and generally redoing the entire living room for the past three weeks and it seems the job is getting bigger and bigger.  One thing leads to another and now it seems there is nary an end in sight.  So, the best thing to do is walk away for a bit.  The old dog and I hiked far down into the creek and then back around the woods for a good couple of hours. He had to stop several times for a rest but that was fine by me as it gave me time to photograph whatever caught my eye at the moment.   The sun was starting to slide down behind the pines before we headed back to the Little Bayou House.  With a chill in the air, he was happy to be close to his warm, cozy bed.  He trotted off to sit near the steps as I had to take just one more picture!

  Years ago for the "Clue Hunt on the Bayou" (our annual fun time in October), there was a need for a bottle tree.  This was an easy prop to erect so it was stuck down in the front yard.  Now, several years later, the bottle tree is still in its place.  That is not so spectacular in itself but the way the late afternoon sun was gleaming through the blue bottles was quite striking even though it was never meant to be a thing of beauty.  It was nothing more than a long forgotten clue hunt prop.

  It is funny how something that you see every day of your life can take on a new appearance just because of the lighting.  That old saying about being in the right place at the right time is true.  It takes a special moment to see a mundane object in an whole different way.   My bottle tree became mesmerizing purely by happenstance.  This evening, it was sort of pretty in a weird way.  Tomorrow, the bottle tree will, once again, become something that I should have removed long ago.