One of the things I want to do this year is challenge myself to look more carefully at things close to home. Sometimes I walk down the street and see something astonishing in the everyday mundane...like the way a particular slant of light reflects off of a window, or a little pop of color pushing its way in between the cracks in the sidewalk. As a couple of you may know, I carry my camera with me everywhere I go, which is a good habit. The problem is that I don't always stop to take the picture ~ maybe I am in a hurry, or maybe its cold and I just want to get home and pour myself a glass of wine ~ or worse, maybe I am just not in the mood. So my goal is to post at least one image a week in a "close to home" series. The only requirement is that it has to have been taken within a mile of home.
This week's photo was taken while running errands on Saturday afternoon. It had just started sleeting and I had forgotten my umbrella. I was scurrying home with a cup of tea in mind, when I happened to glance up and see this tangle of fuzzy seed pods resting in between some branches above a chain-link fence. And snap. Just like that. Okay, I can do this, right?!
Happy Presidents' Day to you! Things are very quiet in the nation's capital, but I am busy packing for an adventure. I will be rather "far from home" for the rest of February, and away from this space. But, I promise to bring back lots of wonderful things.
I was a little outside the perimeters on this one ~ 2.07 miles from home to be exact. But, it's okay to cheat a bit now and then, right?
Blue skies and melting snows in Washington this weekend. Mild temperatures lured people outside to bask in a brief break in the weather ~ and prompted me to explore the outer reaches of the "close to home" limits (walking, not scurrying). Sunday afternoon there was a long-planned and rather belated birthday outing for two capricorns ~ a bit of history, some hot cocoa (with whipped cream!), and warm crêpes at Café Bonaparte made it worth the wait. However, I must say that our real treat was the sun (especially since a certain groundhog saw his shadow this morning).
Just chasing shadows these days. The sun was out this weekend and warmed things just enough to make a sunday morning walk bearable. It was followed by lots of stitching and hot cocoa. Winter is really beginning to wear me down ~ it has been so cold, and we haven't had nearly enough snow to make it interesting!
A cold walk. A grey day. And a wintery palette. I couldn't limit myself to just one image.
One of the things I want to do this year is challenge myself to look more carefully at things close to home. Sometimes I walk down the street and see something astonishing in the everyday mundane...like the way a particular slant of light reflects off of a window, or a little pop of color pushing its way in between the cracks in the sidewalk. As a couple of you may know, I carry my camera with me everywhere I go, which is a good habit. The problem is that I don't always stop to take the picture ~ maybe I am in a hurry, or maybe its cold and I just want to get home and pour myself a glass of wine ~ or worse, maybe I am just not in the mood. So my goal is to post at least one image a week in a "close to home" series. The only requirement is that it has to have been taken within a mile of home.
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