I’ve been working on my positivity, and I have many reasons to be cheerful. I have my health (well, most of it), I have my own gardening tools and I have plenty of room for books. I also have friends, a tolerant wife and a laptop.
What more could I want?
Well, I suppose the joints and bladder of youth would be handy, but I’d probably have to be ambitious and hard-working again, which isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Anyway, the joint aches started when I was still in my teens due to various accidents, so unless I’m prepared to set the clock back to 1968 and re-live the unpleasantness of my teens it’s not going to happen. In the absence of a time machine it’s not going to happen anyway, but you know what I mean.
That’s another thing to be cheerful about – I don’t have to go through all that teenage angst again.
Mainly, if I’m honest, I’m cheerful about having a digital camera. Compared the the old-fashioned film camera, which could hold thirty six exposures at a time, and where the film needed developing before you could see the results, the digital camera is cheap and efficient. I’m now able to take thirty six shots, instantly see the results and store hundreds of good shots on one small card. Due to the marvels of modern data storage I can also store thousands of poor shots – I really must learn to be more organised.
With a digital camera I can spend my time watchng birds, looking at old buildings and blogging. One day I will have to start earning a living again, but until that happens, I have plenty of reasons to be cheerful.
The pictures I’ve used here are just a selection of my favourites from the last few months.
Digital cameras are such a blessing! Camera, laptop friends and family and most of your health sounds like all good things.
Here’s an old song by the late flatpicker Doc Watson you might enjoy. Your post made me think of it,so I looked it up on YouTube.
Yes, i did enjoy it, particularly the mouse and empty cupboard – sounds my life at the moment! 🙂
Currently I have 35,227 photos on flickr. Not many of them are up to much, but who cares? Camera, friends, laptop and most 0f your health – sounds like a pretty good selection of reasons to be cheerful.
That’s a lot of photos, and a lot of memories!
I think I agree with you on most of these. I’d hate to have to go through my teens again – 20’s weren’t much better 😉 I have joint problems too – rheumatoid arthritis since my mid-twenties. I love my digital camera, my lap-top and every now-and-then I get time to do some gardening. Life’s good a lot of the time. Your photos are good; I like the things you photograph too. 🙂
Thanks – my published photos are the results of taking thousands of blurred and badly composed images . Thank goodness for digital imaging!
T agree!
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Apologies for the typo – don’t know who this ‘T’ is!
No problem – I guessed who you meant!
I thought you might 😉
I too suffer from long standing joint problems but I too share your pleasure in owning a digital camera. I hope that it keeps on giving you pleasure and entertainment.
That bread looks delicious.
This year I’m going to learn what all the camera controls do!
A year will not be long enough, believe me.
🙂 Experience tends to suggest you are right.
My camera has many capabilities which I have not fully tapped after three or four years.
Same here!
Each snapshot a memory in itself.
Yes, there are some great memories there.
Some great shots. The first is stunning
Thanks Derrick – it’s an example of taking so many shots you eventually get a good one!
I always love seeing the men in sheds…
I’m going to join Men in Sheds now I have time. Sitting round moaning about modern life and drinking tea – does it get any better?
There is definitely something to be said about about leaving earlier years behind.
The peppermint creams turned out well.
Yes, must make more peppermint creams…
Some very nice photo, Quercus. I like my digital camera for the same reasons–take a pic, find out it isn’t good, and take it again, or catch the light and KNOW you’re catching it. Fabulous.
Thanks – in truth I’m a very bad photographer but I take lots and lots of photos. Got to love digital! 🙂