A picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words... it is so true and we all use this phrase very often in our lifetime. And Wikipedia puts it as "The adage A picture is worth a thousand words refers to the idea that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. It also aptly characterizes one of the main goals of visualization, namely making it possible to absorb large amounts of data quickly."

For me, it is more than just visualization and data absorption, but great piece of treasure with bundle of emotions associated with it. Gone are those days when Raja Maharajas used to get their portraits done with great artists. Thanks to cameras, we don't need to sit for hours to treasure our memories.

God gifted us with the invisible camera which stores images of people and places that we like the most or hate the most. But poor memory, it has limited capacity...can't store many pictures for long...so we need external storage as an add-on for human memory...unless we are human camera...see the video clip shared by one of my FoF (Friend on Facebook):

Digital cameras make our life even more simpler. Share your memories with family and friends with just click of a button. Today, we got a chance to browse through 2000 pictures which were on hard prints before. I've been bugging my husband to get them scanned and finally got the digital prints. The picture browsing session took us on a journey from Kurnool to Hyderabad to Trivendrum to West Bengal to US and back to Kurnool to Tamilnadu to Karnataka...great ride of beautiful memories. What a pleasant gift for the new year!!

And the most beautiful memories for any mother are the first few years of her babies. Within one year after birth, babies change so much...it is really hard to recollect how they looked each month. Honestly, if I don't have their pictures taken, I'm sure I can only recollect few important moments. Thanks to my kid's nanny Kim Markly and Shutterfly who inspired me in doing baby books for both my kids. Whenever I open those books, they bring big smile on my face and it's great fun for kids to see their life's first actions and reactions with dates imprinted. 

Harshita's first year baby book with milestones:

  

Harshita sat with support on November 14th 2002.

Harshita's first laugh on December 09  2002.

And Parinita's first year baby book with milestones:

Pari rolled over unassisted on Jan 19th 2005.

Pari sat without support on May 9th 2005.

If you think that I've so much time to capture and treasure my babies beautiful memories, what will you say for this father who captured his baby's growth for years. 

Gosh....should have got this idea before....may be time for another kid j/k ;-).

That reminds me of new year resolution. To all my friends with new resolutions, wish you all the best and a very HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Enjoy your time with family & friends and do treasure those fun times.