The Photo Hoarder #Blogboost

Am I the only one who has 9,000 flower pictures on her Iphone?

I am a photo hoarder.  I admit it.  But when I scroll through the over 9,000 (yes, you read that right) photos on my phone, I remember why I keep so many of them.  Seriously, not all of them are flower photos.

There are the pictures of people I knew who have died in the past year - the next to last Mother's Day spent with my mother in law, a reunion of cousins pictures that includes a cousin's wife who passed from brain cancer earlier this year.

There are unforgettable sunrises and sunsets.  Strange things I've seen around time.

And about those flowers. There's a growing season's worth of flower pictures, from the first crocuses to the Japanese anemones that will close out the flowering season - possibly as early as Saturday morning, when we are expecting (boo....) our first frost, after days of unseasonably warm weather.  Wait, what?

There are pictures of my garden (where the two zinnias above are).  There are pictures of a red dahlia whose tubers were given to me by a friend who died from cancer in 1998. We kept them going until last fall - in the last days of my mother in law, who died the day after Thanksgiving, we were so consumed by the events that we forgot to dig them up.  The tubers died over the winter.

There are pictures taken of my travels, and there have been a lot of travels this past year, including travels to three funerals and a wonderful two weeks spent in Florida in January.

I hope to share some of those pictures with you this coming October as part of a new Ultimate Blog Challenge.

And I thank you for checking me out.

I hope you will join me on this October blogging journey.

Day three of the Ultimate Blog Challenge #blogboost