Everywhere i turn lately there is someone talking about vacation bible school. either their kids or grandkids are going, or they are helping run it at their church. i am not a religious person. if i had to label myself i would probably go with agnostic (agnostic vs. atheist). but i do fondly remember those…
standing in the kitchen looking confused, trying to figure out what to have for lunch. tomato soup was an option as was some chef Boyardee something in a can. (it doesn’t matter which variety, they all taste pretty much the same). and then as I peeked into the fridge one more time I realized I…
Hummingbirds were my maternal grandmothers favorite bird. i took these this afternoon and they always bring her to mind, she would have been 94 on feb 11, but she passed away in 2011. I am blessed to have so many hummingbirds at my house year round and i try to keep the feeder filled with sweet sugar water, because i know when i see them flitting around that she is with me. growing up she and my grandfather were just a few miles away, a trip i took many times on my bicycle or motorcycle growing up. Even as an adult after i moved over a thousand miles away, i still took time at least once a year to get back ‘home’ and visit with her.
My grandmother on my dad’s side was also a lover of animals and always had a dog around, she even once had a pet wild squirrel she rescued as an orphaned baby. She would have been 95 next month. although she passed away in 1981 I was lucky enough to live next door to her and spend time with her nearly every day for all of those 11 years.
Family is precious, you may not love all of yours all the time, but remember we only have each other for a short while and we don’t know how long that will be. So tell them you love them, and spend as much time with them as you can.
i took a picture earlier today of a glass of water, but then i remembered this sequence of images i took a few years ago when my nephew was visiting and i took him for his first visit to the beach… i was torn between warning him about he wave coming in and taking pictures of his reaction. as you can see, taking pictures won out.
Paper, Priceless Paper These used to be a common sight in a teenage girls backpack and notebook, i think now they are almost completely replaced by IMs and text messages. these are notes to and from my now husband when we were in high school. each page a reminder of the fact that even 26 years…
These books are mine. My copies of a book series i read a million times at my grandparents home. They could take me away to many distant lands and teach me about different people and cultures. i bought these on ebay a few years ago because i wanted to be able to see them and…
It had to be nearby; she remembered walking this path to picnic in the shade with her grandparents. Now the area seemed so different yet so much the same it was hard to remember, should she have turned into the woods sooner, she remembered there was a tiny arbor at the end. Suddenly, she felt…
Friday Fictioneer Wrapped like a mummy, nothing visible but a nose. Rustling sounds outside keep us awake. We know it is nothing dangerous, a chipmunk or squirrel, but the sounds are foreign, just enough to keep us alert. Time passes, a few whispers, a few giggles, a shush from the next tent over. The cold…
not very mind blowing, but nevertheless Looking Down… hmm maybe i should go back and do Stairs too… is that cheating? anyway… this is a photo looking down the stairs in my house and hanging there on the railing is a quilt, my mom made that for my grandma and when we lost my grandma…
this is not a great picture, it was taken with a cell phone a few years ago… i have been wearing my hair in a mohawk-esque cut for many years now, but i don’t actually ‘mohawk’ it except for halloween or other costume related reasons. while vacationing in missouri back in 2009 my niece thought it would…