Little of my news comes from Washington, thankfully. I know bad things happen in the world, and I even know what they are. But the big stories happen in my life, and yours. I choose life, not other people’s notions of what is important.
The big news for me today is that the sun set and dropped down over the hills beyond the farm around 6:30 and Lenore and I were lying there with my camera, and some bottled water and two sticks of licorice to keep me from baking in the very hot sun. Color is defiant for me. It helps me tell the world that I will not be defined by their news, or by their notions of how or where I should live. More news at ll.
If you let them, they will tell your story for you. Who to love, what to do, when to retreat from life, when you are finished, when your story is no longer important. The Red Hat Society knows better. So do I. My news is not about the economy or greedy and evil corporations. There is just too much color in the world for that to be my story.
I turned on the radio today and hear reports of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, terrorist attacks, angry and opportunistic politicians clawing one another, economic stresses, unemployment and storms and tornadoes. I decided to absorb that news, but I will not be defined by it, or see the world in that way. So I came home and got my camera and went out with Lenore to make some news of my own. I found it in the farm garden, and in this flower in the late afternoon. Lenore, good girl that she is, lay down next to me and we just waited for the sun to do its work, and it did.
Spent a half hour out in the sun with Lenore trying to get the light behind this flower, and I saw this little bee come into the flower and go to work. I just sat still and waited. Photography takes you into worlds, brings the world out sometimes. I spent a lot of time watching this industrious little creature, and he has my respect.
