Thing 6


Why did you choose a particular photo? What is it about the photo that you found interesting?


I searched many topics. The first I found was a multi-photograph collage of Barack Obama that had the word HOPE as part of the composition. The letters were individual photographs much like the letters that spell out 23 THINGS on the home page for this class. For some reason, that collage would not copy.

I also searched "mockingbird" because that is what I am teaching right now, but went on to "Thanksgiving" and finally "Michigan". That's where I found this beautiful photograph of a road through the woods in autumn. Nothing can compare to the vibrant color of an autumn landscape. My dad has a cousin who has a summer home on Bois Blanc Island off of Cheboygan in northern Lake Huron. I have only seen this place in summer, but this photgraph is what I imagine it would look like in the autumn. It's glorious to be able to walk in such a setting. I can imagine the sun glinting through the trees, the birds chirping, the chipmunks and squirrels skittering in the underbrush, and my breath, visible in the chilly air. So seldom do I get a chance to enjoy such simple pleasures. It reminds that I should find more opportunities to take a walk in one of the many places in this magnificent state I live in (beleagured as it is of late with financial woes of one kind or another).