A combination of bad weather and feeling a little below par meant that I didn’t work today. Instead I sat at home sorting out my photos. Perhaps a little sorry for myself, periodically watching the wind and rain wallop my plants outside.
In the olden days the job of photo-sorting would have entailed sitting on the floor shifting through reams of prints and negatives. We still have storage boxes containing ancient pictures from across the years. Occasionally I will delve into these museums and wonder at my youth and waist size. Not often enough though. It is good to remember.
Nowadays it means sitting at the computer and trawling though virtual files. And blimey, don’t I take a lot of pictures. The increase in shots since the devil digital arrived is not tenfold, but perhaps a thousand fold, or maybe ten thousand fold, and they need to be culled and named and archived. Being the efficient librarian that I am, this job hasn’t been done for two years.
I may be some time.
I spotted these little snails sheltering beneath a fennel leaf. A fragrant umbrella, how sensible.
Off The Edge Gardening 
Hope you’re soon feeling better and good luck with the sorting. I like taking pictures much more than I like going through and deleting them!
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I love those snails – beastlies though they are, you can’t help but admire their choice of shelter
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I thought the same, I left them there although will probably live to regret it!
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🙂
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Isn’t that something? Sheltered snails snuggling.
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SSS 🙂
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Just goes to show that even snails can look beautiful with a good photographer behind the lens. And sorting photos is a good thing to do on an ‘off’ day, get well soon.
I also have the family hoard of slides, my father’s preferred medium. It is good to take time and wade through memories, flower, friends or family.
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And with slide you can have a show! Wonderfully nostalgic 🙂 ps feeling much better today
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Get better soon please. Then I will too. It’s empathy.
And them snails love getting up and under. As we love your photos.
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Thanks John, hope you are feeling better today.
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I hope that you’re feeling better. Good picture. I try to sort my photos monthly but rarely succeed. xx
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I am thanks. It is the best way, little and often. x
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I hope you are feeling a bit better today, Gill. I must admit, I’m dreading looking at my photo archive. I’ve got 16,000 photos on this i-pad. Apple says it will take 22 weeks to upload them to the i-cloud. I can’t delete any. There’s no hope for me! Hope that’s made you laugh. I love your sheltering snails. I cannot ever kill them. Mine go in the dry ditch at the top of the garden, where they are probably laughing at me, as they march back down the garden as a destroying army… much love- Karen xx
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It is a long and painful road, decisions, decisions, decisions …. it took four hours to sort just two months! And then I took loads more pictures today. :))
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That’s made me laugh 🙂 xx
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that’s a wonderful picture of snails, I hope you feel better soon.
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Thank you, much better today. 🙂
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The Digital age…pluses and minuses!
A fennel umbrella.
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