Bigger Better Camera

We had our good friends from Colorado come out to visit us last week. We had a wonderful time with them exploring the city, going to dinner and just hanging out. That's how you know that you have GOOD friends, when you can just hang out around the house doing the normal everyday tasks and everyone is content. You don't have to go out and spend a bunch of money, or try to entertain them.
One of the days our friends were here they left me with their camera. Their camera is much nicer then mine, and it something that I probably never should have touched. Because now I have major camera envy, and every time I pick mine up to take a photo I am dissatisfied. So the moral of the story is, if you don't have the money to buy something then don't touch it!!! It just leads to being discontent and longing for something that wasn't ever meant for you!! But I am more motivated to keep saving for my own camera that has more the features I am looking for. Above are some of the pics I took with the bigger better beautiful camera!

The View Through A Lens

I went to Target today to look at the cameras. I am trying to decide which one to save up for, and honestly I am completely stumped. All I know is that my camera is slowly but surely becoming more and more of a frustration then a joy. I love to take pictures, and am completely amateur, but there is something remarkably beautiful about looking through the lens and seeing what pops up. The camera has a way of making perfectly ordinary things look amazing- and prodding you to do things that you ordinarily wouldn't think of doing.
It is the ability to see the beautiful color and texture of things that the human eye cannot pick up on it's own. I look through the camera and suddenly the shape of Mary's fairy wings looks inviting and it is time to become Tinkerbell. Ella's sweet hats, and Zeke's shiny boots beckon you to go outside for a walk. Solomon's book covers just plead for you to huddle under a blanket and read. And I would probably never step foot into my dear husbands Jeep if I didn't look at it through a viewfinder.
I absolutely love and am completely endeared to whomever designed the magical camera. I am sure that God placed a camera in my life to help me do things that I might otherwise find a waste of time (because I have laundry and dishes or misc. cleaning of some other sort).
~K