Random Thoughts

This is why I like photography so much. You take what you think will be a nice picture and circumstances and sunlight you would not get at any other time and chance make it a great. This was taken on our deck, under the picnic table. The vertical bars are the deck rail posts and the horizontal bars are the house siding.

Say what you will about smoking, and I am a former smoker, there was something very sexy about a man lighting two cigarettes and handing one to a woman. (Bette Davis and Paul Henreid, Now Voyager). Or a man lights a woman’s cigarette and she steadies his hand holding the match as the flame touches the end of her cigarette. What a potentially intimate moment between two people who barely know each other. Do not get me wrong. I am glad that people in general do not smoke as much and there is no smoke in restaurants. But, an occasional nostalgic glimpse of the past ……

I was looking through some photo albums the other day, one with pictures of my kids when they were very young (and so was I). The other one is one of my favorite presents from my mom. One Christmas she made personal photo albums for my sister and me, each with pictures of ourselves growing up with pictures of various relatives. She gave them to us many years ago, but I now and then pull it out and have a nostalgic moment. I happened to look through both of these albums because I had dug them out from the many boxes of unpacked books in the basement. It seems every time we move that stack gets bigger. Anyway, I was feeling a little nostalgic and talking to BG about it. And that brought on conversation about our kids when they were toddlers. I said that it was pleasant to look at those pictures, but sort of sad. No not sad, nostalgic for simpler times with simpler problems? Nostalgic for just being younger? I couldn’t quite put a word to the feeling. Definitely a little sad, but a pleasurable sad. Bobby told me that he realized a long time ago that no one gets to be 20 for any longer than anyone else. Wow. I never thought of it that way before, Duh, but it is SO true.