The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Three years ago, inside this sweet little house we call home, my family gave me a Cannon Rebel.
It was the first time I'd owned a camera that wasn't "just" a point and shoot!

Forty years earlier, I received a Kodak Instamatic camera...from Santa, if memory serves.
I'd shoot a roll of film, give the film cartridge to my dad, and he'd take it to be developed. For days I'd run down the stairs when he got home from work, looking for my prints. He'd smile at me from the bottom of the stairs and sing, "Someday your prince prints will come!"
He's a cutie.

These days I get to take a photo of today's snowfall...
and show it off {the snowfall, not the photo} the very same day!

I can take hundreds of photos of the simple things...
the front of my house after a snow storm, my back yard trees and the pond down the street.
I've lost myself for hours behind my lens...and found bits of myself there too.
I plan dates with my Rebel.
I walk for miles with her as the seasons change. She has helped me see so very many things I've never noticed before! I've always been one to capture big events...to document happenings.

But now I find it's the sweetness of my day to day...of a leaf, or a snowflake...a sunbeam or a puddle...it's all these little things that catch my eye. And find their way into my heart.

And, thanks to the gift that keeps on giving, I can preserve these precious bits for years to come.

Linking up with

Little Things Thursday

and

Mama Kat