Fitting in a daily picture is occasionally challenged by everyday life.

Last September 6 was the day I came closest to missing my 366 Snaps photo. My brother had a routine medical test scheduled in late morning, so I headed to Kalamazoo in time to get him to the lab, figuring I'd have plenty of time after the procedure to get photographs of the small towns north of Battle Creek.

The test didn't go well. Nothing major, mind you, just the sorts of inevitable problems that occur when you spend enough time taking medical tests. Unfortunately it took the doctors and staff hours to make a decision that could have been made in minutes, and we were left abandoned in the hospital's basement being pretty much ignored. By early evening we'd turned pretty hostile, and they let us escape.

By the time I'd got my brother home, checked in with Joan, and grabbed a bite to eat it was nearly dark. I honed my small-town list to Bedford, which has an attractive park built around an old mill, and headed there.

The mill shot didn't work out--not enough time, or light, and the wrong camera. I did get a workable shot of an old storefront, or perhaps boarding house, which I posted to 366 Snaps. And this unlikely photograph of an ugly bridge across the creek in the mill's park, which is sharply focused and oddly interesting.

Definitely not the day I had planned, though.

Drove home mostly in the dark.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 6
Title of "roll:" Bedford Mill Park
Other photos taken on 9/6/2012: none