For much too long now I've been occasionally seeing things I once would have stopped to photograph -- most often, something alongside the road catching my eye as I drive by. Once upon a time I would have stopped, exposed a few frames on the plastic cameras I always had with me. But then I started to forget to bring the cameras along (they didn't fit well in the diaper bag). After awhile all my film expired. But old film, no camera, it didn't matter -- in the mad headlong rush of everyday parenting, always on the way to somewhere and usually 10 minutes late getting there, I had simply stopped stopping. Figuring I'd come back. I always meant to. But I never did.
But on Monday, I did. Driving to my mom's house from the gym, in a rush to run get Cole and take him to a pediatrician appointment for a sudden and severe ear ache, I passed a farm field where a plastic bag was caught on a wire fence, twisting lazily in the hot summer breeze. Before that moment I would have seen it, thought 'that would make a great photo,' felt the usual twinge of regret as I kept going. But not this day.
Late or not, ear infection be damned, I turned the car around. Parked. Ran across the busy highway and spent a moment just looking, gathering myself. How to make this photo. And here it is. (iPhone again, Hipstamatic app).
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