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More from across the road

A closer view of the tree, barn and farm. I didn’t like that I cut off the ground, but I couldn’t get quite what I wanted from my side of the road and these guys kept zipping by…

I’ll take a better look at that tree and some of the others I’ve noticed when they leaf out this summer.

Across the road

There is a grouping of pine trees and an unusual square barn along Montana Highway 35 that I’ve been wanting to get a photo of for a long time. On the way home from Karl’s day care adventure I thought I would give it a try. It was a beautiful day with that sky that was impossibly blue and enough clouds for interest. There are several field entrances from the highway, but only one is plowed. It was the wrong one – the angle was not right. Frustrated, I turned around to get back in the Jeep and noticed the farm across the road.

15 minutes

On the way home from a Friday trip to the dentist AND a walk by the lake with Karl, I noticed a sign in a new Bigfork floral shop that said “SALE”. I had been thinking about getting some flowers to try floral macro photography. I forgot that it was the day before Valentines Day.

The shop owner and her partner were madly assembling red rose arrangements. They looked at me with harried faces and I told them what I had come for, but that I could come back on Monday when things were not so hectic. They laughed and said, “No!”. They said they could use a break from roses and spent 15 minutes helping me pick 4 flowers and yacking with me about flowers, photography, winter and life in general. And regardless of the glut of red roses in the shop, I couldn’t resist buying one – the buds were beautiful.

I had great fun putting two photos of the rose together for the An Abstraction post. And the light was best on the floor so I had the help of Bob and Karl… I love the color of the Gerber Daisy closeup which reminds me of creamsicles. But I won’t be giving up walking outside and capturing those things that I love and that are part of my life and will save the macro mostly for those things that I see and find.

I used to have fresh flowers in the house most of the time. I’m not sure when I stopped doing that, but I will start again. And, it was such fun in the flower shop. They asked me to bring prints to show them. So, although floral macro might not be my thing, I made new friends and rediscovered the pleasure of flowers in the house.

15 minutes.