Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2014

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

You know how some pictures you see  bring back a flood of memories, while others do not?

I remember seeing a video (reel to reel, honey. We are talking the old days). It was taken at the tag end of some of my first wedding, which took place in 1972. In 1973 we went on a cross country trip with those same people, and he just continued the reel.

About a dozen years later, I got to see the "movie" for the first time. I remembered after the wedding film. But when it switched to the next year and we are all walking around a fish hatchery, I was astounded.

Why?

Because I had no memory whatsoever of being at a fish hatchery.

Still gives me the creeps.

Was I so bored I just blanked it out?

I guess I'll never know.

But then there are pictures that take you right back to the moment.

Like wedding pictures, baby pictures of my one and only chick, that kind of thing.

But I ran across a photo the other day, which is a pretty ordinary picture:
It is late winter. I am thirty-two years old. I have worked all day and grabbed up our then-delivered-to-the-door Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

I'm sitting at a desk we had just purchased to go in our being-built house.

I knew after we moved in and had a house payment, we wouldn't be able to afford furniture, so I was buying  up pieces I knew I wanted. And I knew exactly where I wanted each piece. Husband would say, "But how do you know it will fit?" or "How do you know that's the right color?"


I just knew.

And I was right!


Everything fit perfectly, everything was the right color.

Picture this: my Victorian Cottage may be small but it is a gift from God. He allows me to live in a home I was privileged to design, decorate and reside in.

Now, that's a pretty picture for you.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Easters of Yesteryear


Daughter's first Easter was a happy time...
Okay, Easter # 2 was better. She was almost two and really liked her Easter "basket"

At almost age three, she became engrossed in the chemistry experiment called egg dying...

 But we cleaned up pretty good the next morning for church!
At age almost four she was more relaxed in chemistry.
 And look what a beauty she was coming down to see what the Easter bunny left.
 At almost five, she got a big surprise! (and notice how the  newel post has "shrunk" from last year)


Who could resist these Easter cuties? Daughter and first cousin.
Almost seven: She loved this doll!
 And we skip a year to almost nine: Cheesy smile and all. When I said, "Smile!" the dog did too. But she sure didn't like being the Easter Mastiff.
 And just for giggles, this is me, age six. Ain't I purdy?

 And  my Daddy, around five or six., 1934 or 1935.
HAPPY EASTER!