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I’m killing two birds with one stone here. That’s our engagement photo from the local paper that I made into an Art Trading Card on paper-one of my first too! So it’s almost our 25th engagement anniversary which will be on my birthday in November. Notice my Princess Diana haircut and top of that era.
Elvis-gone 30 years. Happened right after I graduated from high school. Princess Diana-10 years-we had just gotten online and I remember all the message boards expressing sympathy. And now 9/11-6 yrs. That was a scary day for so many of us, not knowing what was happening. Sean was a freshman in high school. I wanted to go get him to keep him safe. I couldn’t stop looking up at the sky since I’m sure a few of those planes weren’t that far away. We all remember that day.
You are suppose to drive around today with your headlights on to show you remember too.
The a/c is blasting again. If it’s not on, it gets stuffy in here. I was hoping for temps in the 70s and I see on the weather now that we will be getting some rain! It’s been dry too.
Here are the promised photos of the compacts I got at the weekend yard sale. My mom recognized the name of the designer on the aqua one, Richard Hudnut and it may be from the 1930s.
I was going through a plastic shoebox and found a list of bushes, trees and perennials that I identified around the yard in the 1990s(which may or may not be correct):
Spotted Dead Nettle-spreading perennial
Emerald ‘n’ Gold Euonymus
Golden Euonymus
Dwarf Lily of the Nile (purple flower looks like hyacinth)
Laceleaf Japanese Maple
Barrenwort
Crepe Myrtle
Chinese Dogwood
Little Princess Spirea
Columbine
Azalea (I added 2)
Daffodils
Tulips
Vicary Ligustrum shrub
Lily of the Valley-perennial
Bradford Pear
Bird’s Nest Spruce
Japanese Painted Fern
Mugo Pine
Autumn Joy Sedum
Yucca
Yews along the house
box hedge
Lilac (purple)
Wild begonias
Several Rose of Sharon bushes
Burning bush
Maple
Snowball bush
other trees along the back
Hollyhock, though I have another one that was divided now.
And of course two American Chestnut trees.
(We still have most of the above!)
I added:
3 butterfly bushes (2 purple, 1 white)
Bleeding heart
Shasta Daisies
Bluebeard/Mist Spirea
3 hydrangeas–2 blue, 1 lacecap
Viburnum
Grasses
Variety of lilies
Variety of roses
variety of irises
Rhododendron
trumpet vine
Clematis
peony
2 white hydrangeas (thought one was a mock orange blossom)
Sweet Bay Magnolia
Cinnamon, fiddlehead and a couple more ferns
Waterlilies
circle of box hedge
barberry bush
Mums
Variegated hosta
hosta
phlox
Here’s my photo set at Flickr if you want to see a lot of the above mentioned greenery. I’m proud of myself for knowing so much of what is in my yard!
Speaking of IDs-here’s the one from about 1981 when I was young and free. : ) It’s now West Chester University, but it started out as West Chester Teacher’s College. I was born in that town too.
July 10, 2001-Sally Taylor (daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon) played with her band at a free concert in Exton, PA. and the three of us went. I was grabbing a few photos of Sally and it had just rained and she said the flashes were scaring her a bit as it had been a lightning storm-we almost didn’t attend. Flash forward to September, 2007-Sally and her husband Dean are expecting a little boy any day now! James is gonna be a grandpa! ; )
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Sal and mom Carly Simon
My post was getting ‘eaten’, so 3 is the charm. This was taken when Sean was almost 3. He was about to start preschool and had some ‘training’ issues, not too bad. He loved to follow me around in the yard, so busy. He changed a bit as an adult. : ) This is one of my favorite photos of us. Please note that I was not the incredible Hulk mommy. I had to take the photo of this photo at a funny angle to avoid the camera’s flash.
I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy, ever since you went away. Every hour of every day…the rest is a love song.
Tom Snyder passed away at the age of 71 on July 29th. Back in the late 60s- 70s, he was a newsanchor at the Philly station where my brother is presently employed as an electronic technician (yeah, Dave got all the ‘math brains’ in the family).
Back in 1968 as a Philly newsman
I do remember Tom back then (as I fondly remember Jessica Savitch), but I remember watching his late night show when all the other shows were long over (I’m still a night owl). I recently watched him do an interview with James Taylor and his siblings back in the late 70s that was uploaded on Youtube.com. I can’t help but think back on Dan Akyroyd’s (when he was on Saturday Night Live) take on him…sitting there spewing out questions with a cigarette in one hand.
Good television.
This is me when I was a little baby with my older brother Dave. He was an only child for over 5 years and was happy to get a sibling. Almost one year later, he got a brother! Dave called us ‘the babies’ until we were preteens and then he got another brother 12.5 yrs younger than him.
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By the way, Dave is having his 53rd birthday on the 4th of July! Happy Birthday big bro! And you can figure out how old this photo is too.
Yeah, they are ‘closing shop’ at the end of September. But as many of you know, they are affiliated with Flickr which is a paid service. I told Yahoo to go ahead and move all 1,600 photos (who knew?) over to Flickr. I think I can afford $2 a month for the upkeep. It’s nice to know I have a safe place on the web too. And the photo quality vs. Yahoo is like night and day. I was up late last night browsing some of my photos that I haven’t seen in a clear light for a while.
It’s a hot one in PA today. I haven’t been outside except in my robe at 12:30 (ok, I wanted to take a shower) as Veronica’s Neighborhood Round Robin came in the mail from Rachael today. I am the last one to stitch on it from our group. It’s really charming. I will be looking for the perfect addition. I’m thinking ‘store’ as Carol has a store opposite of where I will be stitching.
Here’s a coincidence for you-last week before the NYC trip, Sean rented Bobby. It was about Robert F. Kennedy in an indirect way-it told of the day and night leading up to his assassination at the hotel in California. I didn’t remember (I was 8 at the time) that 6 people got shot in the kitchen that night. So a few days later there we are sitting in St. Patrick’s Cathedral where RFK’s funeral took place. I’ve also been to his graveside at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, DC that is marked by a simple white cross. I think he really could have made a different in this country.
In my Vod:Pod I have a recording by the Leo Reisman orchestra who my great uncle Frank played trumpet with. Not sure if he is on this actual recording-the Merry Widow Waltz, but he was on the soundtrack of Paper Moon. Why the interest? Since Barbara is having twins, I told her about Frank and his brother being twins.
To my brother Dave and sister-in-law MaryAnne!!
Their house with younger son Patrick before his junior prom last year. Patrick is about to graduate from high school and his older brother David is about to graduate from the Art Institute of Phila. with his degree in interior design. He did the family room at his parent’s house.
I also met Brian exactly 25 years ago today at their wedding. He’s MaryAnne’s first cousin.
For those of you married 4-5 years, it doesn’t take long to reach milestones like this.
I’m feeling somewhat better. My back is still a bit achy. I remember after I moved books and painted in the family room back in 2004, I suffered with arm and foot pain for at least a month. I tend to overdo things. I told Sean not to let me pull one weed in the week leading up to our trip to NYC as I want to feel great for Karin and Michael’s wedding. Poor Michael is having back pain himself and is on painkillers.
Off to the grocery store soon to fill up some bare cabinets.
1978-86
Why these dates? I haven’t draw anything like these since Sean was little!
Here are some drawings I did way back in the late 70s when I was between 19-20 yrs old. Yeah, Al Pacino looks like Jesus a little, but that was his character in Serpico. The lady was an Irish actress Mary Larkin who appeared in a mini-series in 1980 called ‘Against the Wind’. I remember drawing this and the other-not shown (from the local tv magazine) down the shore while staying at a beach house with my mom, grandmom and little brother) I was at the age where I felt I was getting too old to go on trips like this. I know, she has a long neck! The baby was a drawing assignment from ‘Drawing from the right side of your brain’.
My mom is a terrific portrait artist and still draws when the mood hits. She is draws in a more sketchy way where I like to shade more. Mom and I are both lefties.
Collages & Creative Goodness 