Throw Away
As I go through my pictures on days I’m not in the mood to go take new photos, trying to remember which ones I’ve already used on my blog, I also take the time to delete photos I know I will never use.  But today I got a wild idea and decided to restore the picture I’d just deleted and see if there was any part of it I could use.  After an hour or two of playing, I came up with fourteen possibilities.  I’m posting them all, and at the end, the picture of the giant blooming castor bean plant they all came from. Below is the unedited photo I threw away and then retrieved–the mother of them all:

I guess the moral of the story is that there are lots of possibilities in even a picture you think doesn’t warrant saving.  Unfortunately, I see this potential in other parts of my life as well, which is why I got distracted waiting for all these photos to download to my media file and started sorting closets.  I’m proud to say I sorted out a big box of clothes to give away and another to sell.  Photos are an easy thing to hold on to because they don’t take up much space, and if all else fails you can send them to the cloud.  Now if they could just invent a cloud for the rest of the clutter of my life!!!.

Do not miss this photo: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/27/flower-of-the-day-september-27-2015-bashful-dahlia/