Surprise

[Mrs. Venation]

This is a scanned image, so the resolution isn't so good. I was in Cades Cove, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with family members who were visiting from Hawaii. I saw this beautiful clump of green plants growing around a log. I stood almost directly over the clump, focused, and saw something quite surprising.

Can you see the hidden surprise?



This is another scanned image, same day, same place.

In Retirement

[jhain]

1. SNAKE!!

We should have an enitire SNAKE!! thread someday....

The wagon shot is good one....looks like it has served someone well....

[Mrs. Venation]

2. One of the Joys of Photography

is the ability to look at a photo and return to a moment we might otherwise forget.

On the day these photos were shot, I was with my cousin,Tammie; her life partner, Patrick; her son, Dennis; and his fiance, Rose. Everyone except Tammie grew up in Hawaii and had never seen a snake. Rose had been talking all day about how much she wanted to see a snake, so after I took this photo I went and fetched her, Dennis and Patrick so they could see the garter snake among the leaves. Rose was thrilled. She said, "Kathy, pick it up!"

I must have looked at her like she was from a different planet, because there is no way on God's earth that I am going to pick up a snake. I am extremely afraid of them, even though I know most of them can't hurt me. Anyway, I said, "hell, no, I ain't picking it up! You pick it up if you want to see it up close and personal!"

We still laugh about that, and every time I look at these photos I am reminded of an absoultely wonderful day with people whom I dearly love and deeply miss.

The old wagon just looked so forlorn. No one was really even looking at it, and I thought there just something touching about this broken down, but sheltered, old farm wagon.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. No snakes in Alaska. :-(

[intheflow]

5. That's a bad thing?

:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

6. No, not bad at all...

I was just responding to Jhain and his/her "we need a snake" thread. I'd be out of luck with that, although I've got some really big earthworms in my compost pile. Would they count?

[TahitiNut]

4. THERE'S A MOTHER-F*CKING SNAKE ON THE WOOD!!!

Sorry ... but somebody had to say it. :blush: