Red
With my family still out of town on their annual pilgrimage to the coast, leaving me home alone by myself all week, I (of course) wanted to get out and do some photography while they were away. After work on Monday, I decided to head up into the hills, to Wrights Lake. When I was here last year, I thought it might be a good place to come for sunset when there is snow on the mountains. We had our first snow fall of the year on Sunday, and I was hoping fresh snow along with some pretty clouds would make for a fabulous sunset. It was really just a light dusting of snow, however, and I was hoping for a bit more. As for the clouds, there were quite a few, and I thought when I first arrived that there were too many, and sunset would be a dud. But as sunset time approached, some of the clouds dissipated and it turned out to be an incredibly sweet sunset. The mountains turned incredibly bright red in color, and I had this amazing scene all to myself.
Well not quite all to myself, actually. I shared it with a friendly little visitor, named Daisy … Daisy Duck, that is. As I was waiting around for sunset, a little duck splashed right up beside me by the dock at Wrights Lake, and it swam around near to me without a care in the world that I was there. I changed lenses and took some shots, one of which is below. She was quite the funny little duck. As sunset approached, just before I took the above shot, the duck started to swim out into the middle of the lake, and was ruining the nice reflection. I called the duck back, just like one would call a dog or cat. Here ducky ducky. Here Daisy. Come here girl. It worked. The duck came back to me, swimming right up to me within 2 feet of me. This happened 2 or 3 times. This is a popular lake in the summer, and I guess the duck is very used to seeing people. Still though, it was definitely an extremely friendly little thing. Finally, as the color from the sunset faded, the duck swam off into the middle of the lake, I said goodbye to my little friend, and turned to go back to my home. It was a glorious evening.
My little friend:
