Backing up my entire northern life

It took almost 4 years, but I have officially filled up my iPhone. 6 GB of photos alone, it was time to clear out a bit of the riffraff. But upon going to see what was actually on the thing I found everything that we've done in Canada. It hit me that I got my first iPhone the first morning we were in Duncan. It's a library of odds and ends, good meals, funny people watching, beautiful scenery, Einstein, worldwide vacations and portraits of everything I found notable, in order. Birthday Christmas Easter Summer Birthday First Snow First Blossom Camping Changing Leaves Christmas et al. My art, others' art, art I want to make, art I WISH I could make. Before clearing 1500 pics off the phone I doublechecked 3 times that the files were backed up on my laptop. The pictures of my youth barely fill a little shoebox, yet the digital images of the last 4 years number in the thousands. Somehow they all mean something, even the little memories seem worth keeping (at least for a little longer...)

Here's to 4 years of artful days. I present to you:

iPhone, a cross-section: