discovery on my way to the pool

After nine hours of work I treated myself to a swim. Usually I would just ride my bicycle there as fast as possible but today I stopped to blip this thistle before all the little flowers are gone.
I was still halve sitting on my bike and trying to position my phone amidst the shrubs when an old man came up to me.
Turns out he used to be the owner of the photography shop in the village and retired in 1989!
He told me he had seen all the technology from glass plates do digital and had lived in England with his British wife for many years after the retirement. For their holidays they often went to Scotland.