Project 365 day 254: seeds and sky

or "more weeds in my garden - now seeding!"

I had another play with the macro lens in the garden, but it was windy, the plants were blowing around, and I left it a bit late again, so that much of the garden was in deep shade. Consequently the really close-up photos were not in focus, probably because of movement blur or camera shake on too slow shutter speeds.

It's been a quiet and rather nostalgic day, with the commemoration events for the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers being reported on the radio and a lot of more personal events appearing in my One Drive photo memories. Normally the second weekend in September is busy: since moving south eight years ago, J and I have travelled back to the North East to catch up with family and friends, meeting J's school and college friends at Metrocentre and eating with my brother and his family, before returning southwards to Leeds to join the annual Communication Matters conference. This is where people who use AAC, their family members and the many professionals who support them meet for a few days of academic presentations, personal accounts, and a lot of networking and socialising. As I heard some of the last night of the Proms on the radio this evening, I remembered that in recent years I have often listened in the car while driving down the A1. This year, the conference is taking place online, with five days of presentations, discussions and social events starting on Monday; it should work well, but we will miss chatting and browsing stands over coffee and cake, dressing up for the conference dinner, and the infrequent contact with all the friends we have made there. It's also two years now since we saw our family and friends from the north east, though the pandemic has made us realise that it's very easy to chat online, and J in particular is good at making this happen. 

So next year, along with all the photo memories of people and places, there will be daily reminders of my eighteen months (and counting) taking photos of weeds in the garden. I won't run out of weeds just yet, but I wonder if I'll still be photographing them next September.