I thought it would never end. The sheer scope of the project weighed me down for months, the procrastination was truly epic but finally I found the will to move in and get it done.
Working almost daily for 50 hours over 3 weeks on top of a year of frustration – that’s what it took to finish the ever-looming project of transferring my existing 18,000 photos to the new photo system, and in the process learning how to use it.
It was a huge mechanical grind, but I found some good podcasts to keep me entertained, rolled up the sleeves and got at it. Finally. Manual labour, I called it – re-sorting, re-filing, re-looking, re-culling and re-editing.
Now that it’s done I feel that immense weight of unresolved issues leaving my body. The effort was all worth it in the end. No longer stalled, now I can move on to the creative.
Among the many images I looked at were a gazillion of the garden over the past years we’ve been here. The transformation was extreme, starting from a bare patch of yard, and now that things are lush and (over) growing I thought it would be fun to pull out past images to see the changes. Before and after.
Now that it’s summer again, I’m back outside enjoying all this, looking at clouds, watching bees, butterflies and hummingbirds who hang out in this jungle, noticing every daily change, celebrating every new bloomer, come back for another season’s extravagant show. Even the neighbour’s cat likes it here, often settling in for a nap under the bushes – this after his daily dose of getting high on the catnip we’ve thoughtfully planted.
I’m not the only one lying around on a garden lounge chair, dozing and enjoying – got to slip in at least one cute cat picture. Dennis…
