Chapter Two: The benefits of ADD

It is an age old story, and we have all heard it before.  Most of us have read a similar version on the internet.  Well this is the pictorial version.  And I hope to put a positive spin on this affliction.

A woman sits down at the dining room table to start planning for next week's lessons.  She looks to the left and has a nice view of the garden out back.  She looks to the right and sees that the curtains are still drawn in the living room windows.  Well, that can't be.  If she is going to plan she needs to be able to see outside in both directions.  She gets up to open the curtains.  Once the curtains are open she notices that the newspapers have not been picked up off the driveway yet.  Well, we can't have that.  It looks like no one's home.  So she goes out to pick up the papers.  As she picks up the papers she sees that...

another Datura blossom has opened.  This is clearly a notable event because it was the first of December after all.  She is still Canadian enough to be able to marvel at a bloom so lush in December.  SO, she decides she should take a photograph.  She runs in and upstairs and gets the camera.  The above photo is captured,

as well as this one,

and this one, because the wrinkly effect of the petals almost looks like albino elephant skin.  Well, she thinks, as I'm out here, (and as she hasn't looked at her garden for weeks), she decides to have a little photo tour to see what was there.

The Mexican Firebush is looking very autumnal with rusty leaves and red berries turning to black in places.

The leaves are almost prettier than the flowers and berries.
Well, after that, she noticed:

that the Copper Canyon Daisy was out in full bloom.

And even though she knows that she has already taken a million photographs of this plant, she proceeds to take...

a million more.

Because, well... why not.  She loves it.  Rose-coloured glasses for sure.  As you can see a happy hour drifted by, and finally she made it full circle back to her computer.  But then she had to upload all the pictures, and then check which ones were worth keeping.  More time passed.  Hmmmm.  Planning?  What planning?