This photo was shot on a rather cool fall day while I was taking a little "therapy stroll" at the Botanical Gardens.  There are always so many things to look at there, but this graceful White Egret that was perched atop a very tall and distant pine tree stole my gaze! 

Fortunately one of my camera's better features is a powerful zoom lens. Sometimes I use it like binoculars because it brings things that are far away amazingly close!  I clicked a number of pictures hoping for at least one that would capture this beautiful bird from so far away.  I kept this one.

I can tell you that I have been in that garden area on countless days each month and have even seen several of these birds from time to time.  However, none provided such a photo op as this one!  It was all but posing for me!

Occasionally something beautiful just happens! Often we are not prepared, and yet, it can bring awe to an otherwise predictable or even mundane day.  

Sometimes we get those kind of rare glimpses of God in our lives.  A divine moment when clarity busts onto the scene afresh...a pleasant surprise...an unexpected visit or encounter.  Those points of time leave a thumb print of joy and beauty that becomes a memory we cherish. Catching this image was indeed one of those.

I have a hunch that if we develop a "seeking, asking, knocking" mentality, there may be more of those moments to find!