We in Central Oregon got hit with a double whammy. The first presumptive positive test came back announcing that the Corona Virus was here, and a snow storm moved in giving us 5+ inches of snow on the ground. Staying home was an easy choice. Working from home made it even easier. I have recently gotten a library card and had made a few trips for books. When the first positive for the virus in the county hit, I made another quick dash to the library and had 15 minutes to pick out more books. One was a photography book. It has a nice cover and title. I will read it soon. Another is a social media marketing book titled Kick Ass, Social Commerce for E-Prenures , by John Lawson. I am reading it now. I am about a third of the way through it and I see some of my errors and some of the things I am doing right but not good enough. Some of the things I am really doing right is with my pattern sales but not the notecards. I am putting note cards in some of my patterns sales, with people that I have built a nice rapport with and I am hoping that will generate some interest in my website. But that isn’t good enough. I do have a blog and that is one of the best ways to get the attention by Bing and Google that I need. I need to do better. I was just starting on that when I took a quick break and checked the day out in the front yard. All of a sudden my focus changed, and I went out to photograph one of my garden suns and it’s shadow. There is snow, there is sun, there are shadows, and there is ice. I have new photo’s for this post instead of some of my older photos. I am enthused, I got out in the fresh air, and the temp was just coming up above freezing. I watched air bubbles in the water under the ice surface, and chased the sun around bushes. I didn’t even leave my yard and I had a lot of new subjects, photographed.
Tomorrow most of this will be gone or different. Today I got it, and I got a better blog because I went out and took the photos. Tomorrow I go look for different subjects. There are places I can go, where there are not people, and the dogs can roam while I am taking photographs and enjoying the sun and fresh air. I don’t have to worry about sharing virus germs with anybody out there.
Very good on getting out. I think sometimes it takes something that we are trying to cope with that gives us a swift kick in the rear to get our butt in gear. Lot of times I think that it is just a manner of a different perspective that we notice things that were there all along. Maybe it is things that were there all along, or maybe our minds are free to wonder the what ifs that make us change our focus.