Inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Candid (human or animal)
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When you’re a six year old big sister, it’s fun to read to your 1 year old little brother. Complete with distinctive voices for all the book’s characters, animals included.
This reading thing is a big deal, especially at six.
And it’s one activity an active little brother will sit still for.
And when your little brother is 2 years old, both of you can hide under the dining room table…
…for a perfect cozy story time.
Inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Letters M or N
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On the ride home from a restaurant after dinner…
Music…
Melody…
Mouths open
in a
Memorable
Moment of song…
Inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Things Made From Wood
Barrels onboard a deck of the Steamboat Ticonderoga…
on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.
Inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Any Topic
When we downsized in 2016 one of the many things eliminated was more than half of our record collection. Vinyl records…LPs and 45’s. We sold some to a local antique dealer. We sold some at a garage sale. We gave some away. Most we don’t miss. Some we do.
We saved two cabinets’ worth. No way was I parting with my collection of Carole King records or the “Three Bs” Barbra, Bonnie and Bette. Or classic Original Movie and Broadway Cast Recordings…Hello Dolly, West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, Saturday Night Fever…to name just a few. My tattered 4 record set 97 WWDJ/TOP HITS made the cut. My husband and I combined our Beatles collections via negotiating sentimental value of each. My beer stained copies of Meet the Beatles and The Beatles’ Second Album won out. My collections of The Carpenters, Herman’s Hermits and The Moody Blues did not.
He also alphabetized all our music. The records are organized first by genre and then by last name or group. We have a zillion CDs alphabetized the same way. Phew.
One of the two record cabinets sits under the window in the living room area of our condo. Never mind that I flashback to dorm life.
A reminder of when rock was young…
…and when we were young as well.
[We are also well aware that this collection will be the only thing our daughter and son will probably fight over when we are long gone. I doubt they’ll wish I had saved Close to You or Days of Future Passed….so I can rest easy]
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles
Remember to look up…
I remind myself…more and more
As the years add up and time rushes by…
Realizing there is so much I have been missing…
From a lifetime of purposeful paths and forward focus.
One winter day…
While sipping a hot cup of tea in the museum’s cafe,
I glanced up.
And discovered…
My favorite hidden exhibit.
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Open Topic
On a college visit with my son in 2006…checking out a school in North Carolina.
Trees in bloom everywhere.
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. The topic: Flower of Any Kind
I’ll admit it was strange to view flowers in anything but color, but I decided to explore my favorite flower photos with an open mind. And eye.
I was intrigued to discover how much I was drawn to the black and white version of the two “tulip survivors” from our former home. The two that were still bursting through the hard packed side yard after more than 30 years.
It seemed fitting to give them an antique look…
