Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Falling Back

Late last night, our clocks fell back an hour in time as prescribed by daylight saving time.  Naturally, this morning I woke at my normal time, which is now an hour earlier than just yesterday.

I tried sleeping in, but my mind flooded with thoughts about property taxes, magpies eating animal fat, and Christmastime in the Philippines.

In other words, my normal thinking.

Knowing I would not sleep—no matter how long I flopped around trying to find a perfect body position—I rolled out from bed and quietly dressed.  After getting my old-timey coffee maker brewing, I wandered out into the sunroom and flicked on the lights for a look.

Desiree has nurtured something of a jungle-in-a-bottle thing in our sunroom.  I have always like plants and this is an equivalent to marrying them.

Good stuff.

During our long winter nights, I set a tall oscillating fan to work wiping air back and forth across the glass at the outside corner of the all-window room to prevent moisture from forming on the metal structure.

I stood there watching the fan for an extended time.  I think our year-long tomato plants are fond of the fan.  They waved back at the fan every time an oscillation directed the fan toward them.

Mitchell Hegman

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