March 9, 2015
(This is part
of a 365 project during my 70th year where I write and illustrate a blog on
each day's gift.)
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| The Chesapeake Bay seen from the shore of Downs Park today. |
After
such gloomy weather of late, it felt good to be in the sun and observe nature
from the outside rather than from the warm side of a glass door.
It
has been about ten years since Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay has frozen over as it
has this year. A trip to Downs Park on a nearly 60-degree day with blue skies
brought visual delights. Ice floes floated about on the Bay that reflected a
deep blue from the sky. Families were strolling about and one group asked me to
take a photo of them with their phone. They wanted me to be sure to include the
icy water in the background. I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed the ice on water
that today was bluer than any time in my memory.
I
sat for a while and watched a seagull pecking at something on one of the ice
floes. With my telephoto lens, I could see it was the bird’s meal—a single
hapless fish with a gaping mouth and intestinal problems. The gull stood watch
over its food between bites. Its vigilance managed to chase away two of its
brothers who were waiting for a chance to steal his meal.
Bad
luck for the fish but good luck for the gull; unpleasant bitter cold created small beautiful
glaciers in the Bay. Nature seems to balance the bad with the good. This is a good thing to remember on bad days.
My gift today was watching white ice on a blue day.
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