Flag Walks #1
Preserving the Memories
My husband and I walk. Not as often as we should. Not as often as we want to. But we try. And we both enjoy it. Once he retires later this year, we won’t have as many excuses. So we’ll walk more often. I hope.
On a recent walk, we talked about how someday in the future, when we move to be near our grandson, we’ll miss walking in our neighborhood just west of downtown Flagstaff, or “Flag” to locals.
We decided to start taking pictures of things we see, one or two each per walk, and then someday make them into a photo book to help us remember our “Flag Walks.”
We briefly contemplated bringing his Canon Rebel T3i digital camera along on our walks so we’d end up with high(er) quality photos, but decided to sacrifice quality for simplicity and stick with photos we can take with the phones we’d have with us - old iPhone SE 2016s with single lenses. It’s really all about preserving the memories!
Since early July, we’ve been taking pictures of our neighbors’ pretty flowers …
houses we wished we owned …
iconic Flagstaff sites/sights …
and anything else that catches our eyes …
or has some meaning to us that we don’t want to forget.
Here are our photos from today …
I’ve named this “Flag Walks #1” with the intention of sharing our walk photos now and then.
Thanks to all my subscribers that have stuck around while I’ve been away, and to my new subscribers that haven’t received a single post from me prior to today!
I’ve been enjoying my break and working on a couple of stories about my summer travels. It was fun to dip my toes back in with this short post!
You’ll be hearing from me again soon.
Your Flag walks sound and look lovely. I walk 5 to 6 days a week. Sometimes with my husband and Sometimes by myself. I'm always amazed by what I see. Thanks for sharing. It's good to have you back!
Such a great idea to take pictures during our walks. We have moved so many houses in past almost four decades and I realised I don’t have photos of any of them. Or of the surroundings. One day we will move out of this home too, and miss the walk that I like so much. I am going to take a leaf out of your hat and start taking photos now.