Making space

Yesterday in the green room I took down two boxes from the closet shelf.  Each had held toys left from some thirty years ago, and now they were nearly empty since I had taken things out for e to use.  Some of the remaining toys are for children a bit older than e so I will keep them.  I found and recycled old Happy Meal boxes; why did I ever think someone would want to do the puzzles on the boxes?  A couple of dolls jumped into the White Elephant Sale donation bag.  There's one more box with toys in another closet; perhaps today I'll get to that one.  And maybe I'll end up with just one box instead of three!

I also worked on photo albums.  For many years when my friend Carol and I attended quilt shows one or both of us would photograph the quilts we liked then print the pictures, often getting double prints to share with each other.  Thus I filled five albums.  While I used to flip through these photo galleries for inspiration, I haven't pulled them out in years.  So I called Lynn to see if her quilting
group would enjoy looking at them and even taking them off my hands.  "Yes," she said.  The albums with mostly appliqued projects go to her on Tuesday for her group meeting the next day.  The albums with pieced projects stay with me, unless I change my mind and send those as well.

In the process of examining these albums, I discovered that one had a lot of pictures of the black-crowned night heron.  I reorganized those, tossing poor prints and cropping some to better fit the album pockets.  For several years now I have observed these birds on my walks along the lagoon.

Which brings up an interesting question:  should I continue to print pictures?  I haven't printed any in quite a while, just uploaded them to the computer.  They look good there, nice and big, good color.  But I can't look at them if I'm not sitting at my desk.  I think of all the pictures of e on my iPad; I enjoy swiping through them and haven't printed many.  But I'm running out of memory.  In order to continue taking new pictures and videos with the device, some of the old pictures have to be deleted to make space.  If I want to look at them wherever I am, I guess some prints are called for!