Memories in a photograph

Yes, when we lived in Monte-Carlo it was a bench in the Japanese Gardens, here is a pathway in the woods, alone a small river, in Italy it was the park in front of the school where I graduated. It's a shame that I do not have many photos of those places.

Photographs are a sure way of transporting you back to the past, aren't they?

I can look at a photograph and remember where I was and what I was doing. Those are some good memories.

I have some photos of the places that do this for me. There is one place up in a small resort town called McCall. It is called "Charlie's Gardens". A lovely place with a little pond in the middle and flowers all around. Don't get there very often Then there is a part of the athletic park down the road from where I live. Not too many people go there so I usually have it to myself. I find a shady spot and set down in the grass. Then there is also a place I go in my mind. It is a beach area and lay in the dune area back away from the actual beach n the cool, tall grasses that grow there. I can relax and close my eyes anywhere I might be and go there in my mind. Off in the distance is a little cottage.

When I was a kid, I really loved our backyard. Whenever I was alone, which happened all the time, I would go there and would think of so many things. Looking at our family album reminds me of my childhood and how wonderful life was with our parents still living.

When I lived in South Africa for two years, I went and sat on the beach in Camps Bay, outside of Cape Town.

A photograph can resurrect a vast deal of memories.

I get that same feeling when I look at old pictures of furbabies gone by, sometimes it's enough to bring me to tears but usually I simply remember their quirky personalities. With the landscape pictures I've taken I might remember when I took it if it happens to be an unusual one for this desert of mine. It's wonderful to be able to put oneself back in the frame of a moment in the past, isn't it?

Nowadays every photo's can make me realize or remember memories.. hmm

@TheHorse - Photos and smells in the air will bring back memories, at least many times they will.

Every photograph is a memory..I often use a photo to write a story. When i was a kid i spent a lot of time in the barn with my horse. Most of my life I unwind in my studio where I paint and listen to books on CD. And of course, Camping is like heaven for me.

Oh, yes. I have several photo albums and I love looking through them, remembering our daughters growing up and the fun things we have done over the decades.

It does..it is a.key to what happened way back then. Sad and.happy memories

That's a nice photograph.Well I tend to visit a garden or go for a stroll.It calmes me down and rejuvenates me.

Yeah...it is called bathroom..I love having bath...India can be ridiculously hot, sticky, and stinky...at least where I live...so...there can't be anything as refreshing as a bath.

oh whereabouts in Iowa?

Since we lived on the bank of the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, it was extremely peaceful there. When the moon was full, I would walk the country roads (which would shine like diamonds) and think about a lot of things @TheHorse . I could probably still tell you where every tree is located even today.