I was supposed to be raking leaves today, but the head cold that I've been fighting with for the past week seemed to flare up this morning, so I stayed inside for most of the day. I did venture out around 4:30PM with my camera, because goddammit I promised myself I would take pictures! So I went into my backyard tool shed, thinking that maybe I'd be inspired by an interesting yard tool, but instead I found a dead mouse sitting in the middle of the floor. I won't pretend that I felt bad when I found him, because these critters have been chewing up anything that isn't metal or glass that I keep stored in there. Between the mouse turds, the hundreds of acorn shells, and the shredded bags and straps, I felt no sorrow. So anyway, I thought I'd take a few shots of him before I tossed his carcass away. Meanwhile, Simon was waiting patiently outside the shed. He might have caught a wiff of the dead mouse.
One problem I seem to be having lately, besides getting out and about with the camera, is the sun. I suppose if I went out earlier I would have had more luck, but today there wasn't very good light, so the mouse shots, and a few leaf shots I took, came out pretty noisy. I played with the settings but it wasn't helping. On a positive note, I took a few good shots of the bottom of my outdoor fireplace. The pattern of the ash was nice, and I think the pics will be useful to enhance some image later. So all the shots will be filed for now.
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