We grow to rely on things, don’t we? My camera is one of those things. I often take it with me on walks and adventures and I always take it with me when heading up north. I’m enjoying the process of learning to use it in different ways and of slowly learning to capture a few things that I couldn’t before; dappled sunlight kissing a flower’s petal and bees covered in pollen, the stamen of a flower and the tree-toad I didn’t know was in the puddled water until I downloaded the picture and zoomed in, the designs a shadow makes, closing in on a baby or a pair of hands and zooming up into the treetops to find a Baltimore oriole.
I panicked when I realized late Monday night that my camera was missing.
I had taken some pictures at Northwestern University of the Shakespeare Garden, the chapel, the campus and when I went to download the pictures, the camera was nowhere to be found.
Nowhere.
I called campus security with no luck.
I was so relieved to hear yesterday that my camera had fallen inside Marilyn’s car on Monday.
It is so glorious to find something that was lost.
I’m so glad my camera was found.
More importantly, I’m grateful that I saw this garden with wonderful friends and gardeners.
I am glad you found your camera. The camera could be replaced, but the beautiful moments you captured here could not.
You said I would find it once I posted and it didn’t take too long for that to happen. Yea, Janet! I would really have missed my little camera. We have grown quite fond of each other.
I would be so very lost without my camera so can’t imagine your despair when it was lost nor your joy when it was found. I am also very thrilled you found it as we now can see the wonderful photos you took of this beautiful place. I lve how you describe all the things you are learning to photograph as this is exactly how I feel, I get so much joy from learning to use mine.
Funny, but my camera has become sort of an appendage for me and I love to see what I can find with it. I am still marveling at your lady slipper, not only the picture but that you grew it and were so patient with it to bloom.
I love the picture of the rose and the bottom picture of those beautiful flowers (not sure what they are named). Nice job!
Thank you, Katy. The flowers at the bottom are asters and these you see were such a vibrant pink that shown so lively on a gloomy day.
Do you remember the Shakespeare Garden we sat in at the Huntington when I came to see you in CA and the roses?
I have been catching up on your lovely posts Penny. I love Kezzie’s crabapple tree…and I am so glad your camera turned up, and the photos of the gardens are so lovely. I had a lovely time away, but it is good to be home ..and checking blog friends!
Thank you, Joan. I’m glad it did as well. It is always good to return home, isn’t it? Welcome back.
I’m so glad you found your camera! It’s like a special extra eye through which you see hidden beauty. Thank you for the flowers, especially that sweet pink rose.
Me, too! It is like an extra eye. I wish you could smell the roses there. Their sweetness was so tantalizing. Thank you, Juliet.
Here is another person that is happy you found your camera, the pictures are beautiful, looks like an Irish Castle, I missed a good trip. But, I still get to enjoy it through your pictures, Thanks pal…
Thanks, Sharon. I’m learning and I’m so glad to have the camera back. The building does have the feel of an Irish castle, doesn’t it? You did miss a good trip, but, you know it only a short car ride away. You would love the roses growing there.
I am so glad that this situation had a happy ending.
I am trying to do what you do — learn to take my camera with me and take pictures of the world I see every day. I am trying to document the every day things of life and learn to see the beauty in that routine. I have a long way to go, but your story, and these pictures, inspire me to keep on trying.
Me, too, Molly.
It took me quite a long time to learn to bring the camera with and to experiment with it. When I realized it was missing, I felt rather like I had lost a good friend. I have learned to put my pictures in an online folder by month and to try to give them names (ex. July, front garden) and as I hunted for my camera and looked in my files, I realized what a valuable visual journal I had. I was also very glad that I made a habit of downloading my pictures on the desktop. I’ve grown to do this frequently. Good luck and keep trying. I have so much to learn and am always impressed by your organizational skills. Penny