Pictures Of Shadows

When I see a picture I want to take...my "focus" becomes so one pointed...that it's likely to get me in trouble. The other day
rushing to my window...to take a picture of the sun high lighting the snow on the mountain tops...before it vanished...
I brushed against a television set...vcr...and cassette player...in one of my clumps of machines...and sent them crashing down. I've been stepping on to people's lawns...pointing my camera at trees in front of windows. The other day I returned to
a side walk spot in front of a school...where I hoped to get a shot of a flowering cherry tree branch...and interesting figures drawn on the school wall. As I rounded the corner...to the prospective scene of the picture...fortunately my survival instincts were to the fore. I had not realized that it was the time of the end of the school day...and there were mothers at the fence...waiting for their young children. I high tailed it out of there at record speed...seeing the waiting trap of an unshaven fellow with a camera at a school yard when the kids were coming out...with the waiting mothers jumping to the wrong conclusion!.Today...I ran the gauntlet once more. On my walk across to my bank...I kept stopping to take shots of interesting shadows on people's front lawns...when I noticed a police cruiser circling around the block. I kept on taking such pictures as I
moved along...and wondered if the cop car would stop and I would be questioned...as a prospective break and enter specialist ...casing the joints...for some night time burglaries! I am glad the car didn't stop...I don't think it would have gone over well...if I'd explained..."I was only taking pictures of shadows!".........................Quester.