I have been in our backyard many, many times in my life, and so it seems to would be a reasonable assumption that I have seen just about everything there is to see there. Yet when I took a walk through the yard carrying my camera, it was almost as if I was seeing everything for the first time. As I looked for opportunities for a photo, I saw details I usually miss, and beauty I usually overlook. For example, I have never thought chives had exceptionally pretty flowers until I got up close:
Strawberry blossoms are also very small and humble, but delicate and lovely when examined closer.
Dainty columbines:
Carrying my camera also helped to show me how much more there is for me to see, if I would look more carefully. I was standing within six inches of this lovely mourning cloak and could have had a perfect picture, but I wasn’t paying attention and scared it away by nearly stepping on it. So I was only able to take this picture against a fence at a rather awkward angle.
My camera also led me to a discovery I would not have otherwise made. Trying to take a picture of a male robin, I found it odd that the bird was allowing me to come so close to it. It was chirping at me angrily, so I immediately started to look for its nest, and sure enough there was a mother robin sitting on her eggs.
Hi Sarah,
I loved reading your observations, how true for all of us.
The chives were my favorite plant. Good picture of mother robin.
Since you wrote about the mourning cloak butterfly, I have seen them here & now know their name. Thanks for the education.
Love, Grandma Kathy