TINY TUESDAY

Mr. HCB has worked hard this year on getting some beautiful planters full of geraniums and fuchsias and the rain last night has been really good for them.  I just hope that it soon stops so that he and his cricket buddy have a good time when they go to a cricket match at Bristol just after lunch.

You won’t often see a fuchsia from this angle, but as these deep purple hanging fuchsias are planted in a two tier floor-standing planter and because of my knee issues, I couldn’t get down low enough to take a photograph, so I picked just one bloom and took it indoors.  I knew those place name holders would come in useful, although I don’t think I have used them for their original purpose ever.

Sometimes life is like that - because of issues in our lives we need to look at things from a different perspective and in doing so, we realise that the beauty is still there, but we are seeing it from another angle.  

Since my knee operation over a year ago, and now having pain in both knees, I could just sit and mope about it, but I have tried not to do that by looking at things differently, changing what I can change and just getting on with my life.  If our circumstances do not alter, then we have to make adjustments and sometimes when we do, it opens up a whole new world!  

Who knew when I started Blip over three years ago, and was taking out of focus photographs with the occasional decent one, that I would progress to the point where I am now quite confident in what I do.  I may not understand everything about F stops and exposure, but I have learned a great deal along the way and am happy with most of the photographs I take.  As I often used to tell my boys, I may not be good at everything, but I can still type at 130 words a minute!

“Sometimes one waits too long 
     for the perfect moment 
          before snapping the picture. 
You never realized 
     that all you needed 
          was to change perspective.” 
Miguel Syjuco