Beauty |San Antonio Photographer|

I have looked at this picture a dozen times.  It is a SOOC (straight out of the camera) picture that happened to be taken at the right time (the biologist in me is fascinated).  My 7 year old snapped the shutter for this capture of  the perfect time.  She is working on a project for school and the topic is “Beauty is….”.  My immediate thought of beauty is red high heels, a chic dress, a new hairdo, freshly painted toes, you know those miniscule  things that in the larger scheme of life really don’t trump much.  Lissy wanted to find something in nature that was beautiful (she is a nature girl like her momma) but insisted that it not be flowers or anything obvious (because Gracie, her best friend, would do that).  So we went for a walk along our property and came across this rotting orange that had fallen from our orange tree.  I immediately scolded her and told her to throw it down and she said, “but mommy, I saw something in it.”  It is something’s BEAUTIFUL home.  She found beauty in something that was present, ugly, decomposed, and had creatures in it.  As she walked inside with the rotting orange her daddy went on to share with her (and my shallow high heel thinking self) about how beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what a wonderful treasure of beauty she had found.

I swear, just when I  loose sight of important things, this kiddo whips me back in shape.

Here is a picture she will share with her friends and teacher in San Antonio.  ”A Beautiful Home”.  In case you are wondering, those creepy crawlie things are termites (I know that from graduate school…. I told you guys I was a pocket protector nerd).  And yes, the orange and its inhabitants went far…far…away from our beautiful home when she was done….haha……

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