Photography is a lot like life, in general. You pretty much have to be in the right spot at the right time to make anything work. Lighting also helps...in both cases. I figure I must be in the right spot, here on the Bayou. Things are working out well and I am at peace here so it has to be "right".
This morning, the photography skills got a workout. As soon as I stepped out the door, I heard a pileated woodpecker pounding on the oak tree just to my right. Getting a good shot without scaring the huge bird took some doing! I managed to ease my way into position but, since the sun was not cooperating, the lighting was all wrong. Well, let me just ease a bit more. I did. I got the shot. All was well.
Then, the garden blooms caught my eye. Wow! That rising sun was putting a spotlight right on the Althea bush! The bird was soon forgotten and I turned to photograph the flowers. Just imagine, I was not even ten feet from my front door and already had taken over 30 photographs. It was a picturesque sort of day!
The Althea bush is one that my granddad gave to me over 40 years ago. It has been scorched by a house fire (our first home), ravaged by horrific winds of Hurricane Katrina and, also, completely submerged in Katrina's floods. After that storm, I potted the little scrap of tattered bush and left it. Each year, it blooms profusely. Today, I decided that I really need to take cuttings of the bush and start rooting more. It brings such happy memories along with those purple blooms! I really must be in the right place...at the right time.
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