Happy New Year!

… to all my blog readers. 

I’m afraid I’ve been rather lacking in blog posts over the last couple of weeks, and any photos I took of the Christmas festivities are now sadly out of date.  Who wants to look at Christmas cakes and trifles when they are suffering from a surfeit of them?  Maybe I’ll save them till the middle of summer..

I have just acquired a new laptop and have been busy getting to grips with Windows 7 (which I’ve actually found pretty intuitive so far, once I turned off all the manufacturer’s annoying popup reminders and software and configured Thunderbird to act and feel as much like Outlook Express as possible. 

I haven’t quite organised my photos yet so here are a few reedy ones I took the last time I remembered my camera!  My new laptop has a nifty little card reader in the side but since my camera didn’t have any photos on it that wasn’t much help:(   

reeds by river

Look at the yellow leaves on these reeds … when I walked this way in November, they were all a brilliant yellow!   Sadly, I didn’t have my camera with me.  It’s amazing how different they look from one month to the next.  Once they were a deep green and the seedheads were a purply colour.  I have decided to try and retrace my steps WITH my camera at least once a month through this year.  Maybe I should look to see if this new laptop has a loud bleep to remind me of such things! 

winter reeds

more reeds

So… two resolutions for the new year … Blog More and Monthly Reed Photos.  And I need to take an online course or two to get my creativity kickstarted again.   What about you?

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2 Responses to Happy New Year!

  1. Taking monthly reed photos is a great idea, will really show the change in seasons. I plan to do the same thing, going up on the hill every month and taking a picture to show the difference in the seasons.

  2. Liz says:

    Good idea, we’ll have to try and remind each other!! It’s amazing how they change over the months…