Just lovely -- the image and the poetry! Thank you for your recent visit and for the kind comment you left. When I see the wonderful photographs you've been taking, I'm humbled at your generosity in complimenting my work.
That image!! That image has me sighing and dreaming. I adore it!
I was just dropping in to wish you the happiest Independence Day. May your day be full! May you enjoy laughter shared with family, great food shared with friends, fireworks to make you gasp, a lump in your throat at the anthem, and a full and grateful heart at all we have been given. Happy Fourth of July, my friend!
It's Sepia Saturday again. Since my dear mother is recovering from shoulder replacement surgery, I thought I'd feature her image this week. This is little Betty with her dog Spot. She was born in a small town in Oregon, the third of four sisters. The Depression defined her childhood, though I don't know how much she knew or understood. Her high school years were spent in the shadow of World War Two. She went to college at a time when women sought an "MRS." degree. She had a lovely singing voice and often performed as the vocalist for weddings and funerals. I remember once when I was really little that she was on television in Indianapolis. She worked in the library at Butler University, putting Hubby through school, so to speak. She worked on and off through my childhood, when working mothers were somewhat odd and not at all normative. It wasn't a matter of personal choice as much as necessity, because her husband's ministerial salary couldn'...
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with tender
beauty.
always
you enter my heart.
never stop.
xxoxoxoxo,
rebecca
Warmest regards,
Bill
those few eleven words are heavy with emotion and significance...
Happy days
is not long enough—
endless tears
Haiku My Heart … Suddenly!
x..x
Ah, Venezia...it does things to the heart...
I was just dropping in to wish you the happiest Independence Day. May your day be full! May you enjoy laughter shared with family, great food shared with friends, fireworks to make you gasp, a lump in your throat at the anthem, and a full and grateful heart at all we have been given. Happy Fourth of July, my friend!
i'd like to swim in eyes that color....at least once !
though sometimes annoying
still have to love them