SHADOW TRICKS
We’re Never First To The Fruit
September Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Shadows”
Time to climb for the apples.
Even with a dearth of wasps this year, there is plenty of competition for the apple harvest. If we don’t pick them off the tree, they won’t be in good enough condition to store. If we hadn’t allowed the trees to grow so tall, we wouldn’t need a ladder to get to them. Not that any will go to waste. Wildlife scuttles, flies, or slithers in to dive on the apples, eating them before and after they drop to the floor.
The shadow in the photo poses a conundrum. It either shows me holding the ladder or the spouse climbing the ladder — we were both there, it’s a 2-person job — but the shadow person looks to be upside down. Neither the spouse nor I go in for ladder acrobatics these days, so it’s some trick of the light or, rather, some trick of the shadow.
Thanks to Mary Chang Story Writer for the Shadows challenge. Join in here:
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