Dec 23, 2013

Close to Home

Looking out the window today at an early winter rainy, colorless kind of day drove me to find and image with some visual warmth. Although I had thought I had posted this one lone ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had not. Like a warm, honest hug from a small, cheery child, this one reached out to me and brought me the same cheer, contrasting the world before me.

I took this image when I first started to take photographs back in the 1980s and was not even a 'photographer', but always like it for the simplicity and graphic nature of it. It is simply one of the exterior frost and interior condensation often found on the window panes in the wintertime in our area. This one was my Mother's kitchen window with the sun setting one afternoon on a very cold day.

I always thought it reminded me of a desert scene somehow, kind of like the sun perpetually rising on the crest of a sand dune.

Over my many years, I have traveled a decent part of the globe, much of it in the effort and pursuit of finding images destined for some purpose or another, but all too often, the very best images, although maybe not 'exotic' in nature, are made right around the area in which I live daily, a place I can intimately experience with depth and familiarity. Like with anything worthwhile in our lives... family and good friends, treasures are usually found close to the heart where we live in the everyday.

I hope this image brings warmth to your eyes and heart as well today.