Eight years, shortly after moving here, I was sitting outside on the Starbucks patio, enjoying a coffee and chatting with a brave little bird. I believe it is a song sparrow, a species that is fairly abundant around coffee shops and cafes or any place where there might crumbs.
After observing the birds for a few minutes, I took out my phone to take a photo of this sparrow sitting on the back of the chair at my table. I remember being very disappointed when it flew away before I could get a good shot. Imagine my surprise when I got home and took a good look at the photo that I was planning to delete, thinking it was only a photo of a chair on a patio!
Though at the time my eyes saw the sparrow fly away, I surprised myself later and realized that I had clicked at exactly the right millisecond to capture the tiny sparrow lifting off. I wonder how many surprises I have missed by too quickly deleting a photo, or ignoring things going on around me.
Reflections 
I know I have way too often either missed things completely, or missed writing about it, due to flying around from one thing to the next. Changes are in the works for noticing more.
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