My walk in the Park
I took my new camera for a walk in the park yesterday.
The river looked clear and calm.
That is a Motte surrounded by trees.
The new children’s playground with the damage free(for children) surface was being well used. The swings, slides and climbing frames are all enclosed with a gated fence. I was careful to take the photo from across the river so that there would be no objection from parents.
The camera is smaller than my last one, although from the same family:- FINEPIX J38. In fact it is almost the size of my mobile phone! It really does fit in the palm of my hand. I saw it advertised in a Lidl Saturday Special sale, a few weeks ago, so I was there when the doors opened at 8am that day!
Shakkya said,
April 29, 2011 at 12:36 pm
I love nature as well as these photos
Mayo said,
April 29, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I would say that the camera took you for a walk. Great Spring pictures.
Maynard said,
April 29, 2011 at 1:22 pm
I was just thinking– how can one use those pictures in the future to make the photographer look like a Queen in the future.
Grannymar said,
April 29, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Shakkya - The sunshine certainly helps!
Mayo - I carried the camera, does that make a difference?
Maynard - This old Queen is well past her sell by date!
Rummuser said,
April 29, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Congratulations on your new camera. Worth the expenditure from the results.
When I see scenes like these, I am reminded of an old Greek saying.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
I hope that you get more days like this to enjoy what is precious there.
Nancy said,
April 29, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Grannymar,
I enjoyed reading Rummuser’s comment because it reminded me of this poem I learned in childhood.
The Bridge Builder
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide –
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head:
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pit-fall be,
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”
Will Allen Dromgoole
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Grannymar said,
April 29, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Ramana - I am looking forward to more ‘Travels with my camera’!
Nancy - nice lesson in that Poem!
wisewebwoman said,
April 29, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Nice shots GM, nothing like a new camera to get one looking at things in a fresh way!
XO
WWW
Grannymar said,
April 29, 2011 at 2:46 pm
WWW - With the longer finer days, I have no excuse!
Padmini Natarajan said,
April 30, 2011 at 8:31 am
I am always in the presence of ‘photo moments’ without a camera! I kick myself–if that is possible–I am using my cell phone camera but it is not so good.
I have always felt that the UK landscape has a particular sheen, glow and tidiness to it that makes us wonder if people can be found around. In India that river would be a busy place filled with all kinds of floating population including people, plastics and pests!!
Grannymar said,
April 30, 2011 at 10:02 am
Padmini - In recent years the park and river have been cleaned up and all the detritus including supermarket trolleys, have been removed. We now have ducks around the footbridge and a local fishing club keep the river stocked with fish.