We’re only going to cover one of those sins here today. Today’s lesson is about sloth. Do you want to know why that’s listed as one of the 7 deadly sins? It’s because laziness never pays off. It is due to laziness that no one here in the blog world will get to see what I saw on our walk by the bay.
Today was a lazy sort of day. It’s warm and sticky out, which means the same inside since we now have no A/C (although that situation will be remedied this Friday when they install a new unit). There were no plans for the day and it’s just so easy to fall into being sloth-like.
When Frank suggested taking a walk out by the marina, I was too lazy to bring along the new digital SLR camera. It’s about 20 times the size of my little point & shoot, weighs about 50 lbs. and I didn’t feel like lugging it along. I was too lazy to be bothered carrying it. Instead I took the little one. When we got to the water, we saw these:
“What are those?” I asked Frank, like he would know.
“Birds.” He grew up in the Bronx so what does he know about birds.
“Are they swans?” I stood waiting for the one we were watching to stop cleaning itself or looking for bugs or whatever it was doing and sit with it’s neck all nice. “Damn, why didn’t I bring my good camera. I could have zoomed in so we could see it better.” The zoom on the little camera rots.
We walked a bit further down and then saw more birds:
“They’re cranes!” I was very excited. I figured they had to be cranes since they had long necks & long legs. I snapped some pictures, again cursing my laziness in not having the good camera with me. You can’t even tell from this photo that they have long legs and necks.
I have learned my lesson. I will no longer give in to laziness. Okay, that’s a lie. We all know I will. But I will try not to, when it comes to carrying my camera.
