It's snowing this morning -- predictions are for 8 inches or so before it changes to sleet and rain and freezing rain -- a messy, messy Wednesday.
My From-My-Window photo project has become an important part of the way I start my day. I get up -- at whatever time I wake up, usually somewhere between 6 and 7:30 -- come downstairs, go to the bathroom, then pick up my camera and go to the window. Each day I take as many as 10 shots from slightly different angles out the window and then spend time looking at each one until I feel I have found the one that best captures what I saw.
And what an exercise in seeing this project is! Some mornings, like today, the landscape is a study in shades of grey and the photo looks almost to be in black and white. Or I discover the slightest hint of pink on the underside of clouds on a day that is overcast. The subtle color of the plants in the winter. The knotweed, which is in the foreground, is often the most vivid color in the photo, with its red-brown. And once in a while, I discover a gull was flying by as I snapped the photo.
Every couple of weeks I look at all of the photos to date in a slideshow and I get a real sense of the passing of time, the changes in the light as we move toward spring. I am finding rewards I never expected in this project of mine.
Yesterday my other new amaryllis opened. I couldn't remember what it was supposed to look like, so it was a lovely surprise. The sun was coming in the windows yesterday and set this beauty off to great advantage --
When I woke up this morning, I realized I have dwindling time available to work on my workshop presentation in March and soon after that I have a course at Senior College beginning and I need to prepare that. Yikes! So much weekend time will be spent on those two projects in the coming 2 or 3 weeks. I really wonder what life is like for those folks who prepare everything far in advance. It just isn't in me to work that way so I am always at it until the last minute.
And on the Arabian Nights front, I have 30 rows left on the first half of the stole. I expect I will finish it tonight or tomorrow. And then I will get a photo of it in all its glory. Because it is glorious!