Shutter Sisters

Tiny Treasures

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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart. ~ Author Unknown

I have an affinity for tiny treasures.

I guess it all started with my grandparents. Every year on my birthday they would give me something that was picked out with great care, especially for me: a piece of jade jewelry… an intricate charm for my charm bracelet… a porcelain figurine… a leather, gold trimmed first edition of a classic novel… the diamond earrings that my grandmother first got her ears pierced with… stationary embossed with my name. Just two weeks ago they gave me my great grandfather’s camera. What make these things treasures had nothing to do with their monetary value. They are treasures to me because whenever I look at them sitting on my bookshelf or hold them in my hands, I feel loved. With each item I fall back in time, just for a little while, and smile at the memory. Others might not be able to look at these same things and see the value and preciousness that I feel in my heart, but I know they feel this way about something in their life.

You treasure the sweet smile that emerges across your daughter’s face every time you read that book she loves to her.

You treasure the fragrance of the herbs you keep on your windowsill.

You treasure the note your husband left on the dining room table for you before he left for work.

You treasure the sound of the rain as it hits your roof.

You treasure the set of salt and pepper shakers you and your sweetie acquired on your last trip together.

You treasure the fact that kissing salt and pepper shakers is something you now collect.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that even if you don’t treasure tiny objects, you treasure something in your life that others don’t always see the value in. In some ways, isn’t that why you are a photographer, so you can capture those special moments and be able to treasure them always?

Today let us into your world and share something you treasure…

Picture and words courtesy of honorary sister / guest blogger Jade Sheldon of Flickr fame.

Comments

  18. Oh my goodness, I love it when my feelings are put into words, that last phrase about isn’t that why you are a photographer…pure perfection!