Right outside my window.
Extremely overexposed.
A “bad” photo.
BUT.
I love the essence of this so much.
I keep looking.
She is there.
Good morning!
Sitting at my desk, getting an early start, I noticed the sun outlining a cloud. I watched for myself as it can be hard to get a shot through the trees. But, finally, I had to go see and watch…and I took my camera, just in case.
I barely got to the edge of the woods…
Before the sun appeared over the cloud. Good morning!
You had to be there
While I love this photo…really, you had to be there. The light, the blue overhead, the clouds, the sun just about to appear over the mountains, the soft cool air…Bear with me – this morning.
Seasons
This dog, Bear…I am so thankful that he is my dog. For whatever reason(s), these last several weeks, the loss of Karl has hit hard, yet again. Maybe because I came so close to losing Bear. Maybe the time I’m spending in the woods, again closer to Bear to reinforce training. Maybe just a cycle of the grief thing. I really don’t know.
It is not that I am sad. It is that suddenly, out of the blue – that Karl is not here – it feels overwhelming.
But, then Bear comes to me or I go to him…or to Bob…or I take photos and peace returns. It is maybe a season, like Winter is a season.
Winter decided to make an appearance. A little late and even later in my corner of Montana and with less ferocity than most parts of the northwest.
This evening, as all was done that needed to be done – and the light was clear – Bear ran and jumped and played in the snow. We were out several times today. It was very cold when it snowed so the snow is like sugar. The sun was out this afternoon and lit the edge of the snow covered trees forming a border of light against dark clouds over the mountains to the east.
As I watched Bear – after our play – resting and watching, snow started falling again…light, medium sized flakes, softly falling.
Alpenglo clouds
Last thing I do before shutting down my computer for the night is make a schedule for the next day. It is more wishful thinking than concrete plan but I have a number of hours of work to get in, walks/play/training with Bear, time with Bob…
One thing I try to always do is get outside with Bear about 1/2 hour before sunset for a final daylight time outside.
This evening, we were out about 45 minutes before sunset. It was 45F!!! and sunny. I had more work, but not a lot and who knows, it might decide to be Winter any day now.
Aside from enjoying the mild and sunny weather, Bear and I are trying to get the TAGG pet tracker to work to the best of its abililty and/or get appropriate tech support which requires getting as much info as possible…more on that another time.
All that needs to be known this evening is that we were located in a spot with a clear view of the sky, I had the TAGG positioned on the top of Bear’s neck…had him stay while I fussed with the software.
And meanwhile…
The clouds turned pink, the moon was in view…
And it was just beautiful. Alpenglo clouds.