Nine O'Clock Shadow

I was one of those kids who loved to create shadow pictures with my hands in the morning sun on my bedroom wall.   It was like magic, the way you could make rabbits with floppy ears or dogs that barked. And you could change their size simply by altering your position next to the wall.  When we went out to breakfast recently the waitress set my coffee cup on the table and some magic appeared. Scott couldn't figure out why I was searching for my camera.  "Shadow pictures", I replied.  And, like childhood we know how fleeting they can be.