Patience

How much Patience do you have?

Yesterday, while everybody was at the Melbourne Cup throwing their money away, drinking champagne and wearing silly expensive hats I was sitting besie a lake in the peace and quiet photographing fish fins!!!!


Ok,Ok, so you all think I'm crazy and should be certified but guess who had the most Godly fun?

I could have taken my fishing line and caught one to photograph, but feel that's a bit cruel to the poor things. I am not starving and hae no need to interfere with the life of something the Lord gave to the Land just in order to take a photo.


It was a cold day too, but the results were more than rewarding!


Patience, self endurance, call it what you will, calls for heavy measure which I did find out yesterday. But, the wonder of watching fish fins pop out of the water was amazing.

Photographing one before it vanished was a miracle.

The timing!!!! Oh,oh,oh,oh ......... yikes!

The fin in the photo is one of a European Carp.

And no, the lake is not down so far that it's an easy feat.

These fish are not in captivity, they are in a lake teaming with wildlife, are as free as the birds and happily engrossed in slurping up mud from the lake floor. (makes me feel sick to type that)

Making it a point to test our patience is fun (sometimes) and the results can be their own reward. I was over the moon when I saw this photo come out of the camera.

This is not the last time I will test my patience in this manner, and it hasn't been the first.

Now I am wondering how any people lost heaps of money at the Cup, spent heaps of money and am also wondering how much water the gardeners wasted on the grounds of Flemington to appease the eye of the rich and famous, and the multitude which attended such a silly event.

OK, so I may have a little water on the brain to sit for hours with a packet of Mentos, my little dog and a camera photographing fish fins, but I'll make a bet with the wordly people now.

I'll bet I had a more spiritual rewarding time than they!

Now ... I am not a betting person, but am wiling to lay that one down!