Glimmerglass at Sunset

8:29 in the evening on the shore of Blackbird Bay.

Watching the sunset on Lake Otsego at the spot James Fenimore Cooper, the Pathfinder and the Mohawks called Glimmerglass.

To take a photo of Glimmerglass at sunset is to know where to stand.

I keep choosing different places to stand as my photographic pre-visualization guides me.

I know what I want the image to look like and I have an idea of how to capture Glimmerglass at Sunset.

It's not about standing, it's about kneeling.

I kneel to Glimmerglass.

I snap.

I rise

but I don't.

I've lost the strength in my leg to push me upright.

I sit and contemplate Glimmerglass.

I begin to crawl to the nearest point of leverage.

It feels miles away.

I see two youg men walking towards Glimmerglass probably trying to not see me.

They sit on a bench overlooking Blackbird Bay.

I call out to one or both "can you help me"

One comes over and helps me to my feet.

I nearly pull him into Glimmerglass

I thank him and say " I had fallen and could not get up".

He said "I'm on my way there myself".

Big difference between getting there and being there.

I turned away from Glimmerglass with a new knowledge of the danger of a fall

In this new world of after.