Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Bigfoot and Elvis

Just as I headed for the door for a quick turn-around trip to the lake, I glanced at my smartphone on the kitchen counter. “Naw,” I thought, 'I don't need that. I am only going to be gone for five minutes.”

I took a couple more steps toward the door, stopped, and considered. No, I didn't need my phone. But my phone is now my camera. I thought about what I always tell Desiree when she wants to leave her phone behind when we embark on a quick errand: “What if we run into a UFO out there, and both Elvis and Bigfoot step outside the craft asking us to take their picture together?”

I turned around and grabbed my phone. Regrettably, I captured no photograph of Bigfoot and Elvis. I either arrived at the lake five minutes too early or missed them by the same margin.

—Mitchell Hegman

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