Elkhorn River near Neligh, Nebraska
I was reading an article about My Hoarding Husband and realized that I am a memory hoarder. I take so many photos to capture that moment that I don't want to forget.
Like driving to Nebraska and stopping on the side of the road because I couldn't resist this old abandoned farmhouse.
Or these roses at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas. Where it was hot and muggy that day.
I picked up my repaired Canon 7D last week and they had the shutter count on the repair sheet. Over 76,000 photos in three years. Most of them stored on storage devices, while you have only seen a fraction of those images, I still hold on to them one terabyte at a time.
We stopped for fuel in Yankton.
A beautiful cemetery in Kansas.
But perhaps the best memories to hang on to are those you share with family and loved ones. Photographs aren't a bad thing to hang onto. Memories captured in images certainly take up less space than souvenirs or material goods.
I try to capture the good in my life through my images; the bad is there hiding in the shadows of memory but you see what I love here on this page.
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal
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