During this morning’s walk, I had a childhood memory flashback. We were about half way through the walk, heading northwest, or thereabouts. I looked up, saw this cloud formation and immediately thought: Look! There’s a porpoise. Immediately, I had a flood of childhood memories.
I remembered reclining on the grass, a blade of grass sticking out of my mouth like a proper country boy, watching the clouds go by, their amorphous shapes shifting in and out of recognition, limited only by my imagination. My memories tell me that I spent lots of time doing that, but in reality, it was probably for brief moments of time, as it was summer, school was out, I always had something else to do.
Thinking of that reclining on grass, I remember when I had to cut the same lawn. It seemed like acres and acres, but it was really a postage stamp sized lawn, easily cut in a few minutes. But, when you don’t want to do the task, it can seem vast. That connected to another memory of when I became industrious and put the lawnmower to use by going around and offering to cut lawns for $5.00. I made quite a bit of money. During the off-season, I collected soda bottles, which had a deposit of two cents, glass milk jugs were worth 10 cents, but were rarely to be found!
Of course, like any proper, well fed young man, all of my money went to junk food … that was before I discovered cameras! 
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Many of my childhood memories center around star gazing while camping out in our back field during hot summer nights. It’s funny how small the back field seemed when I returned for a visit this spring. I suppose that’s what 35+ years does to one perspective of time and space!
I love those childhood memories as they stir emotions within and bring smiles or tears. I was a dreamer, wandering in a world of fantasy to be whatever I felt like being at the moment. And, I admit I still do that. I never thought about photography as a weight lose program but I suppose if I wanted an M9 I’d almost need to be on such a program.
Hope you have a super day and keep posting these images and stories about your new camera.
You’re killing me with the M9 stuff!
I will have to write a post about my thoughts on that.
Nice job connecting porpoises, entrepreneurs, and photography all in one post!
It takes a special skill to do such a thing. Not everyone can do it!
Today, I saw an interesting cloud formation, it looked like a dark grey shoe with a white ball where the ankle would have been. It might be a sign, that my running is to take off again.
I was like you, Paul, collecting bottles, delivering advertising mail, anything that I could earn money on. I financed my second camera that way. It was my first real camera, a range finder from the former DDR. I so remember how excited I was about that purchase, and how good it felt to have earned it myself.
Good memories, thanks for the ride, Paul.