One day this week I took my new telephoto lens for my walk down the pasture. Sure enough the skies were flamboyant. Need more wide angle. So… next day took the wider angle lens. Yup. Beautiful flock of geese flew directly over the beautiful row of fall colored trees. A deer stood and looked at me for ages instead of instantly bounding into the trees but just a little too far away to be a good photo of a deer with that lens.

Unless I develop the ability to foresee the future or want to carry a heavy bag full of lenses, I guess I will just have to accept that some things are just for my eyes to enjoy. I’m resisting carrying more stuff.

Kind of like travelling. I like to bring all my toys. In the old days you could check 2 suitcases so full you could barely drag them along and take another smaller case and your big purse on the plane with you. Not that way now.

I’m kind of good with this. On a fully booked flight to Easter Island at Christmas time a few years back every seat had a person (for some reason there were a lot of large people on the flight) and there were bags and piles of gifts to the ceiling of the plane in the middle section. Lots of people ended up sitting on the floor or walking around during the flight. You could just feel that it all was too heavy. There was a lot of ocean between takeoff and landing to ponder on.

It took me a long time but I am finally starting to see the freedom that comes from not carrying a lot of baggage. LOL In more ways than one.