all creatures great and small
While photographing a sunset scene as I perched upon some slippery rocks at Silver Lakes Park this past 4th of July, I kept looking down, to make certain my footing remained sure, and didn't slip and knock my camera and tripod into the lake. With the waning light evaporating by the minute, it got harder and harder to see and I became more anxious of my footing. After taking another series of shots I moved around again to try and find a more comfortable way to stand on pointy rocks. Looking down I saw a fat curled up leaf at my feet. It was so fat, it almost looked like a mini green blunt. But looking closer, it seemed a little too fat, even for a rolled leaf. Bending down - VERRRRY CAREFULLY- I stranded in the dim light to get a closer look and discovered it was actually a caterpillar. Picking it up and putting on a near by branch to keep it from accidentally becoming a green sploch on the bottom of my shoe, I went back to photographing the lake, but not before I snapped a few shots of it. Briefly I was upset that I didn't bring one of my micro lens along and had to use my 16-85mm zoom instead, but seeing it crawling around safely on that branch instead of scraping it off the bottom of my sneaker helped mute my disappointment.
