January 15, 2003

Daily Blessing

I came home from work today while it was still light for the first time in a few weeks. It was barely light, dusk really, where everything looks like a well-shot movie: the golden hour directors use for their best shots.

About five minutes out a huge flock of birds were sitting in a field on a very large farm on my way. Right, and I mean right, as I passed them they flew overhead onto some trees to my left, passing from the dark field where the sun had already exited behind the farmhouse to the brush on the other side where the trees were still soaking in the light. As each bird passed over they changed from black to a strong grayish white color Escher-like as they flew into the direct sunlight.

A million things could have prevented me from seeing this today - any delay during the long day for even five seconds could have caused the performance to happen behind my speeding car or around the next corner - but none of them did.

January 15, 2003 06:05 AM