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Enough of Mickey, Already!
Photograph © Copyright 2006 WizenedEye.com
Sometimes you’re lucky enough to “get the picture” in the field; sometimes you might have to bring the subject to the studio and work at setting up a shot.
This fall there was a stretch of time when the milkweed pods began to open and the weather favored the transport of their seeds on dry, silky bits of plant-fluff. Rain would end Wind’s opportunity, and so time to photograph these ephemeral fliers was also passing. I carefully gathered up a vase-full of stalks and seed pods - several already open and beginning to spew their contents - and brought it into the house. My plan was to keep them dry and then take them back outside for photographs when I had the time.
Yesterday I glanced at my “bouquet” on the window sill near my desk. The pods are empty! No, the seeds aren’t littering my floor... they were all eaten by the mice.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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Many years ago there was a "city girl" of my acquaintance who went on a Sunday drive into the Virginia countryside with friends. Spotting a big stand of cattails, she gathered up a big armload which she thought would look so groovy in the umbrella stand in her newly renovated attic "apartment". Soon thereafter, when the weather turned colder, she turned up the heat a few degrees and climbed into her sofa bed. Early next morning, she awoke with a tickle in her nose; the cattails had exploded during the night and the room was filled with fluff about halfway up the sides of the sofa bed.
Sometimes you're lucky enough to have mice . . .
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