Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]beautiful take lovely story such discipline to deliver every friday Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Sonny Carter wrote: > I slept really well last night, and when it was time to get up, I > looked out > the window and it was still dark and rainy. Tempted to call in to > the > office and mumble some lame excuse so I could climb back in the > still-warm > covers; Alas, I remembered that I had not shot your Friday Flowers, > so I > dressed for work. > > I went in and checked email, whereupon Buddy the Cat jumped in my > lap for a > pet-fest. You can't imagine how rare that is. He usually > considers that I > am only good for opening cat food and doors. He usually gives his > opportunities to Kathy, but she's out of town, so, I guess it was > any port > in a storm. It was hard to leave my comfortable chair with a warm, > loving > cat purring in my lap. > > I remembered that I had some azaleas still in the camera from last > week that > I did not use, and thought, "They would never know." > > As I left the house I looked across at Adreen's garden, and felt > guilty, so > I walked over. Her flowers were mostly hanging low from the heavy > rains. > > I drove to work and pulled into the parking lot. The little dell > below our > building was awash in white blooms, as the several dogwood trees > had popped > last night. I took the camera over and made this exposure: > > http://www.sonc.com/friday_march_13_2009.htm > > So that's the story behind how you got fresh flowers this morning > despite my > wish to remain under the warm covers. > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information