Reflections, millpond

I had to spend most of the afternoon in New Haven today for an echo cardiogram, and since I was writing all morning, there really wasn't much time to walk and capture natural history images. By the time I had returned home, it was dark, so I had clearly not achieved the "daily" part of my blog charge and thought, briefly, about just skipping a day. But when I heard the results of the test from my doctor—a valve problem I knew about but one now considered fairly serious—a photo I'd taken the day before seemed suddenly appropriate. This was a shot of the millpond yesterday at twilight when my grandson and I were at the millpond searching for otters. The water was glass smooth and unbroken by either jumping fish or their pursuers. There's something pensive about the calm waters and the reflection of the bare trees and dusk sky. I reflected that I'd best not even think about missing a day. I was certainly not in any medical danger of exiting the scene any time soon, but hey, you never know. You just never know.