the right angle

i tore this branch from a healthy sumac, thinking that from a certain angle it looked just like the antlers of a young healthy mule deer. i tried to photograph my beautiful wall mount, and then, suddenly, i was looking at it from this perspective, and it wasn’t mule deer antlers anymore, it was a raptor talon, and it was so much more interesting. happy saturday. may you hear many mice, burrowing under the snow.

staghorn sumac branches in winter