Unfortunately for me, that spot wasn’t in the garden.
It was the garage.
My life for the foreseeable future is over.
I don’t even have photos!
The main aim was to hang the Kayaks out of the way for winter.
Hang on… let me go get photo…
(It’s quite cold outside right now!! – about 4C or 39F)
Aaaanyway… why am I being a complete drama queen about my life being over? Because it’s going to take forever to sort my stuff – you know the boxes you cart from house to house that you don’t even open but filled with stuff you can’t possibly part with??
yeah, that’s me.
So I started trying to be ruthless. It takes a long time. You have to read all the bad poetry you wrote as a teenager (someone get me a bucket please), read all the cards you kept from long lost rellies, and smile at all the nic-nacs that were given to you by various friends and interrupt your husband a million times so he can “Check out this photo!!!” (His smile and look of interest was getting a bit fixed by late afternoon – no sympathy – he started it!)
Oooooo – I also found my only known last will and testament!! Its Fabulous! I leave my money (described as my ‘fortune’) to my sisters if they can decipher a cryptic message, I leave my soft toys to a school-friends first born (who will be so grateful as she is quite grown up now) and another extremely lucky friend is to inherit my extensive matchbox collection (which I found carefully packed in another of the boxes). I also left my diary to ‘Shaun’ the poor kid I had a relentless crush on throughout school. Mind you – the fact that every diary I ever owned had about a weeks worth of writing before I got distracted and abandoned the project, would have made it a short read for him.
A friend dropped in for a cuppa, which was awesome – rescued me from the agony for a while which was nice.
But I will have to get back in there tomorrow and make the tough decisions (like what to do with the boxes and buckets of collected rocks for instance) so Jeff can have his shed back.
SO – I will leave you with a series of photos I took yesterday of the waves swirling over the rocks at Fossil Bluff last night. (Some of which appeared on my facebook page)
I’ll return with an exciting list of the weird and wonderful things I find and keep in boxes tomorrow.
Cheers
Love to read about your adventures in Tasmania, but, love your gorgeous pictures even more!
What sort of camera & lens do you use (favor)?
How did you get interested in this field?
Do tell all to a newbie/ wanna- be- first- class photo taker fan from across the globe!
Hi Jean!
I use a Nikon D700. I have a variety of lenses, but I think I really love my wide angle 20mm the best.
Most of my gear I picked up in Japan. I got interested in photography during my travels. At first I only had a little ‘point and shoot’ camera.
Back home I joined a camera club and learned a lot off the members there, then went back to Japan and bought an SLR. I moved on to digital about 4 years back.
If you go back a few posts I wrote about a photography challenge I am running on facebook (if you use facebook). Its a bit of fun & a learning experience too. If you are interested let me know and I can email you details.
One thing extra I do advise is learning how to ‘post process’ your images. Now that we have abandoned film and film processors you need to do the extra work on your photos yourself. And it can make or break a great image! You don’t have to be an expert – just adjusting your colour, density and contrast can make the world of difference.
I also highly recommend joining a local camera club if there is one close to you.
Have fun with it – its a fabulous hobby!
There is a book by a Japanese lady (I think) about decluttering. I read it last year. She gets to the bare bones of everything. I don’t remember the title, sorry. I have not done what she does, but I did look at things a little differently when I was cleaning out. Tomorrow is another day.
Love your pictures. So very interesting and beautiful.
Marie Kondo?? I just googled her. Had a quick read over what she was about. Some sensible advice in the overview!! I am about to do some weeding in the sunshine before diving back into the shed!
Thank-you re: photos. 🙂
I think that is the book. She has you make a choice on the spot with no looking back.
lol – I have failed already! Several boxes have been restacked – to be attacked at a later date!! Anyway – about five minutes after I throw something away I have had forever, I suddenly find I need it! 🙂 (Still… I have a number of boxes so far that I will be adding to a garage sale, op-shop or book-sellers shop!)(Yay me) 🙂
Second photo down, RH side, man’s face in the rock with a Bay City Rollers hair-do!
lol!