Butterfly Musings

as i’m scheduled to work the next couple of days, i spent a little time this afternoon taking the last couple of shots for the green project (teardrop…).  i had a couple of ideas in mind, one of them involving my girls, so you can imagine my angst when they just didn’t want to participate.  i wanted to paint their little toenails green and take feet pictures.  well, michaela doesn’t like feet pictures and moriah would let me paint her fingernails (for her toenails were already a pretty shade of purple) if, and ONLY if, i would paint them for her in the den so she could simultaneously watch tv.  deal… so i get the polish and find her on the computer instead, having changed her mind so that she can research song lyrics.  i had no idea that being eight years old could be so busy.  “you can paint your own nails, mommy.”  excellent idea.  so i did.  but since i work in the real world and my green streak in my hair is a stretch for my employer, i didn’t want to have green fingernails as well.  so i painted a couple of flowers and went out on the porch to take pics.  lol- IF i had any foresight at all, i would have painted the flowers on my left hand, because a) i’m right-handed, and b) my shutter release is on the RIGHT side of the camera.  i won’t lie- it took some creative positioning to get this picture.  i can only imagine how i looked to the neighbors, God bless ‘em, as i stood there with my camera upside down trying to press the button (now at the bottom of the camera) with the pinky finger of my left hand and attempting to hold still enough to stay in focus.  what a site- lol.  i think the mental stretch afforded me by the green project has made me a little looney.  you can judge for yourself…