The Front Porch is wet. Some much needed rain has decided to grace our dry grounds. Today's 67° weather picture looks like any other, but there really is rain in it somewhere. My camera is mad at me for getting it wet. A gray squirrel decided to visit today! I was so glad to have a visitor I didn't mind that the little thing spent the entire visit hurling profanity my way.
Batting practice! Remember tossing up a ball and swinging a bat to hit it? Exactly! Mr. Gray Squirrel would bark, then flip his tail. Bark and flip. He was tossing up a curse then batting it right at me with his tail! Apparently, when laughed at, this particular squirrel thinks you're barking in return. He became quite agitated with me. Curses were being pitched in the air and tail-batted so fast the little guy was all but doing somersaults on the branch he was perched on. We had quite an interesting conversation until my camera insinuated that, if allowed to get much wetter, it would refuse to work. For-ev-er. It seemed rather rude, leaving my visitor in the midst of his apoplectic indignation, but I do love my camera. I tried to extend a sincere and standing invitation to Gray that he should feel free to visit often to curse at me whenever he needs the batting practice. But I doubt he heard the invite. I was dodging the little fella's curse-filled line drives all the way back into the house. Before being so entertained by Mr. Gray, I did manage to take a rather mundane leaf picture for my collection.
Again, I headed for the driveway. I do love it as a backdrop. And, again, none of these pictures are contrived. Perhaps they should be. The leaf mid-picture was no bigger than a fifty cent piece. A little thing. The tiny leaf in the upper right hand corner I never saw until I looked at the picture! That's been happening a lot lately. I love it and hate it. I hate that I am so unobservant. But I love the thrill of finding an unexpected treasure in a photo!!! That totally negates the flip side of the love/hate coin! Negate hate... I like it! May your day be filled with wonderful, unexpected thrills!
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