missybgreen
- May 20, 2022
- 5 min read

April wanderings

I know there has been a while since my last photos and my life post. One of the reasons for this is that I have been interim supervisor at work with an unknown end date, so I have been pretty stressed. I have also been dealing with my depression. I have had depression pretty much since adolescents and it has been a challenge. I am on medication, and that helps a lot, but when things get stressful, especially financially, I still struggle. When I went to write in the past weeks, my mind started the whole questioning if I really am talented since people tell me I am, but then do not want to buy any of my photos. I also have only published one story in the past 10 years. So, I was trying to write with that narrative in the back of my head. I finally was able to convince myself that I need to write and do photography for the enjoyment of it, and if it never sells, I still enjoyed it. That's a hard pill to swallow, but I think I finally have it down, so I will continue with my blog. Thank you for your patience and I hope if any of you have depression, you are also able to get help with it.

So, instead of going in order with these photos, I'm going to do them in groups. The first two that I will share are of a deer that I noticed watching me one morning. She just stood there, watching, for several minutes as I fed the cats. It was long enough for me to get several photos. Here are the two best photos:

Since I work nights, I am out mostly in the morning. Lately, I have been getting out after sunset, but last month, that was not the case. Here are my sunrise photos.

None of them were quite as colorful as previous ones, but they are still lovely. I also went out on a very foggy morning and got some very foggy sunrise photos:

Then there was the morning of April 15th. As I was headed home, I noticed that the sun had what I had always called Dog Ears, tiny little rainbows on either side of the sun.

But when I got home, I noticed that the photos of the sun with both sides had what I now know is called a sun halo around it. It is almost like a rainbow but with no color. This is definitely my favorite photo of them all.

Of course, in my travels from work to home (with detours through a couple of our parks), I took plenty of photos of flowers. This time, I actually used google image to look them up and will include the type of flower below each photo. These are copied directly from the internet, but that does not always mean they are correct. If I am wrong on any of these, please let me know.