Shoulda Woulda Coulda

There's nothing quite like the disappointment of should woulda coulda moments. Yesterday morning was beautiful and sunny and it occured to me that this was the kind of day I should take my camera with me to work. But in the morning rush, it was left on the kitchen table. I was running late and I hoofed it down to the main drag as I had missed all the express buses through my neighbourhood. As fate would have it, the best opportunity I had ever had to take a photo of a robin was presented to me. He (or she) was sitting in a bare tree on the outside branches and really close to me! They sat there very still for a long time, just enough to get a few shots off. It was the kind of picture that wouldn't have had the house in the background either.

This morning I went to the same spot, but it has been snowing softly and it's pretty overcast. It was fact, treacherously slippery with the new snow and I fell backwards near the back alley. I'm not having much luck in the past two days actually, as I had my finger pinched badly by a broken restaurant chair last night. I couldn't hear any robins, just sparrow morse code and the honking of returning Canada geese. It was all for naught too, as I had forgotten to load the memory card!