Bright and dirty

I was leaving the office yesterday evening and as I often do, I admired the bright clusters of berries on a tree I pass.  And then I stopped.  Literally, just stopped there on the sidewalk.  For about a half a minute.  Thankfully, I was leaving later than most folks and I wasn't holding up traffic.  Some of the ladies in the building will trample anyone standing still between 4:58 and 5:02.  I thought to myself, why don't you take a picture?  So I did.  And the berries are very much dirtier than I'd have expected!

For now, I'm really enjoying photographing the flowers and berries... things that stand still.  I have some soccer pictures I took the other night, but it was my PnS camera (that's point and shoot) instead of Pinky (the digital SLR--with the pink body--why are you laughing?), and it was dark outside and I was at the top of the bleachers and the girls were always moving and they were fairly terrible pictures.  Next time, I'll try to take Pinky and see if I can do better.

But this, these moments where I stop and ask myself why I'm not taking a picture... this is one of the reasons for taking on this discipline for Lent.  One habit I need to break is not taking that moment to at least TRY to capture some of the things I enjoy seeing.