One of those moist afternoons when it's always threatening rain just a few more minutes from now. You've already walked the familiar routes, the clients are temporarily hibernating. There's nothing fun on YouTube. You just don't have the bandwidth for one more happy hour. If you are like me you are happy to be home instead. Happy to pick up a neglected but well loved camera and just make a circuit through your own back yard.
I had a camera sitting around with a 45mm lens on it and I decided to set the whole conglomeration to shoot as a square format machine. Then I walked out into the backyard to get a sense for how Spring was treating the flora. I think a lot of people who don't live in Austin have an assumption that we live on the edge of a desert and that there's little besides cactus and dust on view here. Nothing remarkable green or blossoming. It's May and I've yet to turn on a sprinkler or touch any of the landscaping here with a stream from a hose. It's all green enough for me.
These scenes are taken looking mostly in two directions. To the North and to the West. I have neighbors on the other side of the tree lines in each direction. Their houses are a couple hundred feet away and we only see them during the winter when the leaves have fallen or in dire drought when foliage starts turning brown and falling off. Having a small forest makes for a good respite from real life. When it's cool outside I pull up an Adirondack chair, pour a nice glass of red wine and open a book of soothing poems. Then I lose myself in the squiggles on the pages until the squiggles turn into tiny ants and signal that my time in the "wild" has come to a close for now. A calming change from working with corporate America.
Kirk
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a nice hide-a-way from the outside world.
PaulB