beauty in an unlikely place

i tore off this sumac branch in order to photograph the other end, where four bare branches flared like mule deer antlers, and also had little hooking buds that made them look like bird claws, and instead, look what i found, in the unlikeliest place. it was like taking a bunch of photos of my puggle’s sad-ugly-expressive-cute face, and then accidentally snapping one photo of his butt, with his tail up over his back, and deciding that that’s where the real beauty lay.

sumac branch