Feeling a bit old after having my 80th birthday! I know I made a agreement with myself to photograph every day...and I have but haven't posted regularly. Life has been busier than I like.
Thanks for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs
Jane - you are the least "old" person I have every met!! A big birthday party etc can take it out of anybody. And, I love what you've done with this image...
I'm cleaning-out/tidying a room in preparation for full occupancy during the upcoming total solar eclipse, and I found a 40th birthday card from my brother: "Some people say it's all downhill after 40. I don't think that's accurate…"
"It's much more like a bobsled to h*ll"
While 40 brought me my first corrective lenses, I didn't feel the bobsled metaphor until the last few years.
Good for you for snapping photos *every* day. I haven't managed that for years. Once I retired and wasn't even walking around campus, I just wasn't passing "new places" to photograph. Sure, we were traveling until Covid, but when we were home, it was mostly just to-the-gym-and-home.
It's a beautiful capture Jane.
My mother just celebrated her 85 birthday. She moved to the USA to be with us last March, leaving in France her house, my brother and his family, her brothers and sisters and her friends. Thanks to WhatsApp, FaceTime and messenger she "talks' with all of them almost daily. She's already made friends in our neighborhood, despite not talking English fluently. I don't see the 80s as old, it's just the beginning of a new chapter.
Happy Birthday Jane, I admire your photography and your determination to go out often and shot gorgeous photos.
Your in a new chapter keep doing what you can!
Beautiful colors and reflections. I would never guess you are 80! Whenever that first number in our age clicks forward, it's only natural that we take time to reflect. But today's 80 isn't like the old days!
That is definitely a milestone birthday, Happy Birthday🎂 Good for you for shooting every day. I try to as well but I don’t stress about it. I usually have a backlog of shots to post if I miss a day or two.
"It's much more like a bobsled to h*ll"
While 40 brought me my first corrective lenses, I didn't feel the bobsled metaphor until the last few years.
Good for you for snapping photos *every* day. I haven't managed that for years. Once I retired and wasn't even walking around campus, I just wasn't passing "new places" to photograph. Sure, we were traveling until Covid, but when we were home, it was mostly just to-the-gym-and-home.
My mother just celebrated her 85 birthday. She moved to the USA to be with us last March, leaving in France her house, my brother and his family, her brothers and sisters and her friends. Thanks to WhatsApp, FaceTime and messenger she "talks' with all of them almost daily. She's already made friends in our neighborhood, despite not talking English fluently. I don't see the 80s as old, it's just the beginning of a new chapter.
Your in a new chapter keep doing what you can!