Prickly Pear Bloom

My polaroid arrived yesterday, exclamation point! And film came today, and of course I promptly went outside and made sure it worked. It does. And it has a “macro” setting, which is hilarious. I can’t wait to see how that works.

The Husband was “apprehensive” when I told him I was thinking of purchasing this clunky piece of plastic old school camera. And when I say “apprehensive” I mean he thought I was totally insane. But as we stood in the backyard and watched the image develop, he admitted that the pola is kinda cool, and he gave me an assignment to take the same frames with the digital camera as I take with the polaroid and see if I can process them to look as close to the original polaroid as possible. A good idea. I like it. I’ve not done it yet with this one though. Apparently he already has a second assignment for me. Ooh, the mystery.

I’m a little nervous about taking polaroids, I didn’t spend much on the camera, but the film’s expensive and I feel like I need somehow to make them count. I don’t have the safety net of digital to fall back on, where I can delete anything that doesn’t work out, and just snapsnapsnap as many as I want to in hopes that one is good. But on the other hand, that part excites me too. That sense of adventure, of unknowing, of discovering, and learning. You never know what you’re gonna get. That’s cool.

So I hope to spread the polaroid love around for awhile. For a long while.

Yesterday the landscapers we hired came and leveled half of our yard, and moved that shed from the middle of the yard to its current, more logical resting place in the corner. Where it used to stand, we’ll put in a couple of raised bed vegetable gardens, hooray!, and we’ve got 3000 pounds (!) of flagstone on the way for a patio. The wild tangle of weeds and things that was our backyard is now a clean slate for us to paint on. Unfortunately, a crabapple tree and this red bush had to leave us. But I couldn’t give up the lilac, which is also in the middle of the yard. I love lilacs. I can’t wait for those blooms to burst. Soon, I think.