On the Way Back

On the way back to the car

from the Museum of photographic Arts

I passed a plant that I’ve seen other times

but today I wondered if I could get the tiny blue flowers

to show properly on my camera.  

Back home I tried to download

the pictures from the camera to the desk

and no matter what I did to adjust the tone 

in the computer I couldn’t get the little blue flowers I saw

in the park to be the blue I wanted.

So I decided I had been asking

too much, that photographers see one thing

and insist that it become something that suits

what they think life should be like rather than what it is.

So I settled for what I could get.