So many possibilities for this week’s photo challenge, Thankful.

I owe a great thanks to Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg and his printing press, invented around 1440. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to read 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff or the anthology When I Am An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple, edited by Sandra Martz. The title is a line taken from the poem Warning, by Jenny Joseph. These books are only two of my favorites. Thank you, thank you, Herr Gutenberg. (I’ve posted a photo of my messy bookcases before; I don’t feel the need to do so again.) The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has one of the original Gutenberg Bibles. It’s an amazing piece of history.

Photo taken from my cubicle window

I am thankful to have worked near the Texas Capitol building. I find it quite beautiful.

And not last and not least, but I’ll stop listing things I am thankful for or we’d be here all day and all night, I appreciate digital cameras. When I started blogging, I couldn’t have guessed how much I liked taking photos and posting them. It sure turned out that way. I wouldn’t have discovered this if digital cameras hadn’t come along, and that’s point-and-shoot cameras, specifically, available to the casual, amateur photographer like me. Hubby has a “real” camera, where he can decide on all types of settings. I’ve tried it and it’s really not for me. Here’s one of my favorite photos that I took.

Sea shells at the Houston Museum of Natural Science