I want a camera of my own !

It is 24 years since I last got my own camera. A lot of water has gone into the sea since then. We have also been given lots of photos from friends as memorabila of vactations spent together. All of these photos, - theirs, and our own are in boxes.
That might sound not too bad, - but, the trouble is that not even the boxes are dated.

I have friends making the lovliest albums for their children and grandchildren. Every date worth remembering has been documented, in nice photos - with the apropirate caption underneath.

Not so our children. Not only have we terribly missed taking photos of our youngest daugher M, - thus hurting her badly for life, - but we have not even taken care of the pictures that were taken over the years. Well - yes, the pictures are not really lost, - but it is rather hard to put a date and a setting to each and every one.

Most of my friends are so much better at this, - but a few others are also late bloomers. But, definitely with good intentions.

"If only I could be certain of having the house to myself for a few weeks, I could bring a table into the guest bedroom, - put all the photos all over the bed and the table and organize them. But - it is difficult, - I do not have the time, people come in, - and I have to clear the stuff away, and the pictures get more and more messed up each time", sais K, the nicest, most supportive of grandmothers still working but never saying no to a needy daughter.

I am a librarian, - and as a librarian one of the first things I learned was to catalogue books. I very quickly learned that I did not like doing just that. That was a bad start, - I probably should have left the profession then and there. I did not, and I am still a librarian and tremendously enjoying my work.

A bit more than 20 years later a new area hit even our library, - the computers, the databases, - the online catalogues. And guess what? - All of a sudden I had an idea that even cataloguing might be interesting. OK, it took me another 10 years for this to become a reality, - but that is another story.

Why am I telling this now?

I want a digital camera, - that is what I want. I want to be able to treat pictures of the family in the same way I finally found it interesting to catalog books.