As I drove through different areas or come around a bend on foot, scenes strike me. These are just a couple from the last 24 hours. Click on the pictures. Continue Reading...
Honoring her December birthday
Well, it's December 6th. Another December date that I remember a loved one on their birthday. I have so many friends and family with birthdays in December. This morning though, I remember my Aunt Janette. Below, I have shared a poem that I wrote in honor of my aunt. She was a beautiful person, inside and out. I was fortunate enough to have a relationship with her right from the time I was born. Continue Reading...
Triumph
Photography 101. The assignment was Triumph. I picked this picture because it kind of looks like a "T" for Triumph. Then I also like the picture, the memory attached to it (being in Northern Maine in the open spaces with three of my kids), and the timing to get this picture in line. Continue Reading...
Connect
Photography 101 This is one of my favorite photos ever posted to 1inawesomewonder. My late Aunt Janette had a very special ability to connect with others. This picture, to me, sums that up. I miss her and the connection I had with her. Continue Reading...
Hand Held
Hand Held Honestly, I planned to be asleep by now. Before I went upstairs to turn in for the night, I looked back. I looked back on some poems I had written over the last year. These poems I've tried to neatly collect electronically within my blog. Some include pictures that I've tied to the words. Then I came across this one and everything stopped. The TV showing hockey highlights in the Continue Reading...
Find Our Way
Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, I was in New Brunswick, Canada to say good-bye to my Aunt Janette one last time. Since I was staying within 20 miles of the old homestead, I took a drive. I always try to get out there each time I am in New Brunswick. This time, I literally had only minutes to spend while in the area, but that drive, and those minutes are always worth it. Between the old homestead, Continue Reading...
My Aunt Janette – The Poem
My Aunt Janette - The Poem I wrote this poem the morning after my Aunt Janette went to see our Lord. I woke up on Saturday morning and had these words in my mind, waiting to be written. So I sat and I wrote them. Then on Thursday of this week, I decided to see if I could find the pictures we took at Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Janette's farm last July. I opened the folder on my computer and I burst Continue Reading...
The Spot
This is the spot where I used to stand. How I wish I could see it again as it was 30 years ago, the views, the fences, the lay of the land. Minutes turned to hours here, even an afternoon. I would day-dream, swing a bat, or throw rocks. It always ended too soon. The fence is gone and the road now paved. I miss the way it was, the cows, the dirt, the rocks, you know, back in the day. I’d Continue Reading...
God Made a Farmer
Inspired by the Super Bowl farmer ad, I am sharing this quick note. This commercial was not only my favorite ad from the advertising blitz that is the Super Bowl, but it may also have been my favorite part of the entire game. See, to me it wasn't an ad about a company, but a cognitive visit to times and places I don't visit often enough. Paul Harvey was a standard at my grandparents home. Continue Reading...
Destination Homestead
Destination Homestead The highways weren't what they are now. The drive times were longer and the family car was crowded. The days were most definitely simpler then. There weren't electronic games to play, options for isolating ourselves within the car, but games we played involving us all. I knew the make and model of almost every vehicle we saw along the way, we all did. I sat behind my dad Continue Reading...