Oops! I Goofed!

  I am probably one of the few diehard folks who still use an actual camera.   Other than professional photographers and those "self-proclaimed" wannabe photographers, most folks use the camera feature on their phones to record everything from what they ate for breakfast to what pair of shoes they are wearing for the day.  I have yet to learn how to use the phone camera so I stick with my 13 year old, heavy as lead camera.  It suits me fine. 

  Occasionally, however, I find photographs on the camera reel that are not familiar.  Whether I accidentally snapped a picture or whether the subject of interest merely flitted, swam or bounced out of the frame remains a mystery.  Sometimes, the picture is of a wall.  Just a wall...nothing fancy.  I figure those are accidents.  Surely, I had no great intentions of photographing a bare wall.  Then there are pretty cool looking photographs of some tree, limb or marsh grass, etc.  Those are the ones that probably had some sort of critter that meandered out of the range when I took the shot.

  Today, I found such a find photograph.  It is of a dead branch.  Admittedly, it is a nice dead branch but still a dead branch.  I was a bit confused as to why I took the picture but, after a bit, I recognized the spot.  Recently, a gardenia bush took a notion to die.  The bush has been removed but its memory lives on in the form of this photograph!  The bush's legacy will always be with us!  (It will remain until I delete the photo.)  This one can probably be chalked up to the pair of cardinals skipping out of the photograph. The limb was one of their favorite spots before I cut the shrub.  At least, that mystery is solved...maybe.