It can be hard to keep in touch with people in these times. We find all kinds of ways.
I do not have a lot of friends. I'm an introvert and don't make friends easy. But I value each and every person I call friend. The same goes for all of my readers.
I text photos with a cousin and a cousin in law. One is recovering from surgery and I do the flower photography, one a day for her. For the other, we exchange flowers.
I also text flowers occasionally to my late mother in law's best friend. She's 89, still feisty, still restless, still loves to be around people. It's been hard for her.
Then there's the woman I call my "guest photographer". Once, before she retired, we used to sometimes take lunch together and we would go out and walk, and take pictures. I miss those walks.
I used to see my guest photographer a lot more than I do now. In fact, I've only seen her once since the pandemic started and it was for about five minutes. So we try to keep in touch by email but then life happens. She's a caregiver (for both people and animals) and has a packed life.
Zoom? I'm not a fan and I'm not sure her rural internet service would support it even if I was.
Guest photographer keeps sending me photos by email (she lives out where there is spotty cell phone service) and today I decided I would publish some of her photos.
So, I will take a short break from photography. Today's wildflowers are brought to us by my "guest photographer" using a DSLR and not an old iPhone like I do. Enjoy!
I am not sure I have ever seen this, but it is beautiful and I understand it has a light fragrance, too.
A far away shot.
A small butterfly (I'm not good on butterfly ID) on black eyed Susan.
It's wonderful when you can spend some of your days in nature. My hope is always that pictures I post bring you some joy.
And please, stay safe.
How are you keeping in touch with friends?
Happy Sunday, Alana! This isolation is hard on all of us. You're right that spending time in nature helps a lot. Your guest photographer's images are lovely. Photography has been my therapy, as well. I quit blogging in April (lost interest, with everything going on), but am trying to get back to it, now. Cheers!
ReplyDelete...I saw that variety of butterfly Saturday on a coneflower!
ReplyDeleteLike you, I don't have a lot of friends. I keep touch with with my oldest son in Rhode Island by phone, and my daughter-in-law has been sending me their container garden photos. It's their first "garden" in their first owned home! I email my brother once in a blue moon, but we were never close since he's 15 years older than I. My daughter just left after a prolonged time away from her home (pandemic isolation is not something she "does!") and she texts me at least once a day, usually more. We text photos all the time too. I guess we have to go with the times of email and texts.
ReplyDeleteI love the butterfly
ReplyDeleteLove little bug guy on last one.
ReplyDeleteHi Alana - that's good you're keeping your photography up - and helping others with your photos and connection ... so important even in normal life as it was. We need to do what we can do to keep us going at the moment ... take care - Hilary
ReplyDeleteHer photographs are beautiful. I've never seen a blue wasp. Incredible! I used to have a friend who was also a photographer and we spent much of our 20's getting together to take pictures. So fun! xoxox
ReplyDeleteYour guest photographer is a great photographer. (Not that you're not talented, too...)
ReplyDeleteLovely photos!
ReplyDeleteWhen I started blogging in January '05, it wasn't as easy to post photos - I'm not sure I would have kept at it as long as I have if that hadn't gotten easier. The blogging did lead to the photography, though - I started by trying to share a couple of "virtual tours" of my usual paddling grounds using waterproof single-use film cameras, then when I was getting ready to do a circumnavigation of Staten Island with some of my friends, my dad sent me my first waterproof Optio. And then it was all downhill from there - I discovered that I just loved taking pictures out on the water and then sharing my adventures that way!
I think it was your photos that attracted me to your blog, too (also your own NYC background).