Winter when it is sunny presents contrasts

You can generally see objects better when there is contrast. Such is the case today. The tips of the trees are contrasted with the robin egg blue of the couldless sky. Pine trees, even at distances of hundreds of feet, individual needles are visible. The deciduous trees, the oak, maple, elm, and others whose names escape me, also are stark and uniquely detailed against the sky. The little buds, that will be leaves come spring time, I can see. Against the snow, tree trunks show their knots, bark irregularities and tapering reach upward. Shrubs are highly detailed and all of the above cast their shadows, long onto the snow. Animal tracks cross and recross one another's footprints. The lake is frozen, supporting the deer poplulation that now travels from wetland to houses and edible ornamental plants. Deer tracts remind me that yesterday I resolved the problem of Shag's left over Purina Dog Chow. I walked the storage barrel into the bush and dumped it. When I dumped dog chow that Shag would not eat several years ago, I found the next summer that the dog chow had been eaten, even the ground inwhich some of the flavor had seeped, had also been eaten. I did see three large deer early yesterday morning cross the road and I had dumped the remaining Shag dog food onto their tracts.

A little update on myself, speaking of how information, when shined upon ones self as a spot light and providing contrast from the daily doings of one's life, makes for clarity of vision. I have been experiencing some vague chest pains and associated heart rate irregularities off and on for more than a month; I saw my doctor who ordered a radionucleotide scan at rest and exercise, to see if my heart had areas of poor perfusion: ie, worsening coronary artery disease. The tests results are preliminary, however, and so far, normal. Good news, I will keep you posted if that prognosis is altered by additional information; another spotlight.

A camera lens can not give you the total elation feelings I have regarding the visual sensation from my peripheral and central vision right now, sitting in the sun room, looking to the West and out to this sunny day.