July 25, 2015
(This is part of a 365 project
during my 70th year where I write and illustrate a blog on each
day’s gift.)
I don’t need to look at the calendar to know the
days are growing shorter. I can see the setting sun’s path alter in relation to
the surrounding oak trees and the passage of time. The end of the day is my
favorite time because I sense a magic. I love the way the angled sunlight throws
shadows and accentuates textures. Some things that I miss seeing in the direct
overhead sun suddenly stand out at the end of the day. And sometimes, it is
what I do that reveals what was previously invisible.
Early evening, I watered the seeded bare patches in
the yard and the thirsty plants. Soon I began to notice that in spreading shrubs
and King George heather I had planted, diamonds had suddenly appeared. These
were not the precious hard stones formed of carbon, but temporary, transient,
sparkling water drops clinging to spider webs. The webs were not the mathematically
balanced and beautiful orb webs that photographers love to capture, but the
tangled variety that seems to have no pattern but do a good job of catching
meals for their spiders. The droplets of water resulting from my hose sprinkling
sparkled in these webs like diamonds in the setting sun.
As I aimed my camera lens, the ones in focus shone
as sparkling diamond orbs and the out-of-focus highlights became heptagon rainbows.
Tomorrow morning these diamonds and rainbows will not be there, but I am
grateful for what I saw today.
My
gift today is tiny diamonds and rainbows.
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