Life Finds A Way

I was busy yesterday, as I was the two days before 

Four loads of washing, cutting the lawn, watering 30 planters,housework, painting

I overdid it

My post covid lethargy is back with a vengeance today and I have slept most of the morning.

I can’t quite get going, a feeling not helped by the weather which is humid and overcast .

It has rained very gently off and on all day, but the rain has been so gentle, the droplets have more or less evaporated before the ground got wet. 

The buddliea in the garden has suddenly blossomed in the heat but there are no butterflies to be seen on them at present. I can’t wait for them to return

As I took the dogs out I noticed this perfect little antirrhinum clinging onto the cottage garden wall.

Life always finds a way

My sisters and extended family have now booked to meet at La Santa Maria Hotel in Sitges next month. I was in two minds to join them , but I have booked my flights nevertheless  

Why the fuck not? Let’s take a chance .

The humid conditions here today coupled with my thoughts of the shabby chic Santa Maria transported me to those cheapo holidays in the sun of yesteryear.

1972 Lloret de mar. 

Never supervised once in the pool by my mother 

I nearly drowned in the deep end after slipping through my rubber ring

Today it’s called neglect
 

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Yes

 Release the expectation

Set yourself free

To breathe

It’s not the perfect 

I treasure 

It’s the

Insanity of life

That brings

A tear

And a joy

I can’t explain

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Healing

Lord

Bring healing 

To this weary being

How are you today?

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Photographs

Halkidiki, Greece July 2012

We used to store photographs in tin boxes or photo albums which were then hidden away in cupboards or attics. Then digital cameras came along and everything changed. Now we store our pictures in computer folders or on memory sticks or CD's.

Yorkshire Wolds July 2012

I guess that some people who are good at neat organisation by nature have their digital photos stored in a logical, easily accessible manner but with other folk it will be very chaotic with photos all over the place. I guess that I am somewhere between these two extremes. 

The French Pyrenees above Ax-les-Thermes July 2012

Since I bought my first digital camera around Christmastime 2004, I have taken thousands of photographs. Looking back, I should have been more ruthless - deleting weaker pictures, saving only the best and most meaningful. But I didn't - I kept most of them like a virtual hoarder.

Hope Cross, Derbyshire July 2012

One wonders how one might feel if one's hard drive imploded or even exploded causing the loss of thousands of pictures. Fortunately, I would still be able to find many of my pictures in this blog or on the Geograph photo-mapping site so not all would be lost. However, I really should get round to backing them up on the external hard drive my daughter bought for me the Christmas before last. I can be such a procrastinator.

"The Riverside" pub, Sheffield - July 2012

For the purposes of this blogpost, I decided to go back ten years to July 2012 and to pick out a small bunch of photographs I took that month. Picked from my computer photo library, dusted off and shared with you.

Sunflowers near Coussa, L'Ariege, France - July 2012

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