The light in City Park
The other day I was walking through City Park and noticed how the light was changing, coming in at the horizontal slant that signals fall. The ducks were leaving shadows in their wake. I sent a tweet to City Park saying fall is beautiful in City Park or the like, and they tweeted back, take a photo we have been looking for fall. I wrote back “how do you photograph shadows and light?”
This morning the lagoons had a low mist hanging in the air softening the water’s edge and trees that grow along the banks. It’s true that fall turns us back to a soft focus, the harsh glare of summer is gone, and we get more misty eyed and nostalgic as we see kids going back to school and recall our own school days. It sort of makes you want to say life was simpler then, but was it?
Tin was messing around with the lock on the truck door the other day when we were driving to school and I remembered a time we were headed across the lake to see my Mama, my mother’s mom, and I opened the door and almost fell out but my mother grabbed me and clutched me so hard to her as she shut the door that I can still remember her heart beating in my ears.
It’s funny how a simple change in light can stir memories such as these.