Wednesday's Words on a Friday

On Wednesday’s, Delores, from Under The Porch Light, has a meme which she calls

“Words for Wednesday”.

She puts up a selection of six words which we then use in a short story, or a poem.

I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story.

It’s a fun challenge…why not join in?

This week's words are:

1. indecent

2. vertical

3. deserted 

4. spectacles

5. moon

6. fleeting

we also have a phrase...."a brittle cold that snapped the twigs of trees like old men's bones" 

and a photo.

Here is my moment in time:

 

I stood on the bank of the deserted, dry riverbed cleaning smudges off my spectacles. My camera was ready, facing east, the tripod as vertical as possible, base firmly planted on a very large, almost completely flat rock. 

Tonight the moon was to be full. 

I had been offered an indecent amount of cash by my agent if I could photograph the moon in stages as it rose from the first glimmer of light to the full orb hanging fat and golden just above the horizon. 

For a fleeting moment I thought of what I would do with all that money. Perhaps a new lambskin jacket I thought, as I shivered in the brittle cold. 

I bent to check the focus of the camera. The sky was clear, indicating a heavy frost in the morning.