I performed another questionable parking maneuver when my peripheral vision caught this sight across a field.
Ordinary things rendered extraordinary: meshing had been draped to protect wire-girded greens from stray wildlife. Torrential overnight rain had doused the layered grids just before the sun’s fiercest light skimmed the lingering water drops.
The sky had clouded over again by the time I sprang back into my dubiously discarded car and zipped off to work. The scene reassumed its Clark Kent persona: a simple monochromatic garden encircled with metal and plastic mesh.
But for seconds before the lights blinked off, just as I happened by, a constellation glittered and sparkled and danced before plump raindrops turned to steam in late summer’s light.
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Interesting grid! Nice job, Stephanie!
Thank you! It’s an unusual challenge subject–I think I like those best. Strange how you start to see the subject challenge around you as soon as you know the week’s word or phrase….
Is that like suddenly noticing how many pregnant women you see once you find out you’re pregnant?
You did that, too?
Uncanny, I thought, but pretty universal, as it turns out. 🙂
Absolutely beautiful! Looks almost as if there were faeries at work 😉
Faerie dust! You’ve described it perfectly.
I enjoy visiting all of the weekly photo’s and I am so glad I just found your, Stephanie you are so talented.
Thank you; you are very kind. I always look forward to the weekly photo challenge–only a handful of them have stymied me!
Nice photos for this week’s challenge. I love the first one—good catch!
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Thanks–that’s my favorite, definitely the one I think least likely to otherwise be seen/noticed.
all very nice images and great take on the prompt
Thanks, badfish! By the way, I love your photos and commentary and am looking forward to reading and learning more about your adventures.
cool…and thanks, welcome aboard!
I love how that happens, just for a moment the light is right and something looks special. I always feel priveledged to have been there to see it.