Photo of the week

Playing around with the macro feature on my digital camera and came up with this.

Photo of the week

:::sigh:::

3 job rejections in 2 days leaves me feeling a bit down in the dumps. SO - for this weeks photo I picked something that I have titled: Happy

I think you'll see why!

Happy Spring everyone!

6th Picture Meme

I was tagged by Tammy of Hot Flashes in the Desert for a picture meme.


The rules are to go to my sixth folder of pictures and find the sixth picture, and show it and tell the story behind the picture.

It's me and the boys in our backyard.

Corky is the one on the left hand side of the picture and Casey is on the right side.

That's me in the middle.

M and I took some picture of the house and us so that we could send them to her Mom when she started to forget things. She has Alzheimer's and has been slowly slipping away into a world of her own.

Jeannie is her name and I met her for the first time it was 2 weeks after Hurricane Georges hit the island of Puerto Rico and did some major destruction. We brought some supplies - batteris and candles and battery powered lamps.

That woman had more stamina and life than I did. They had no power and lived on the 8th floor of an apartment house. She went up those steps like it was nothing while M and I huffed and puffed our way up.

To see her now, that life in her eyes are gone and her memory slowly slipping away is heartbreaking.

So this is a picture for Jeannie: M's "friend" Shazza and her 2 furry grandsons.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

(turn and face the strain)

Ch-ch-changes

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Step back in time with me...to the younger years.

Lil' Shazza at different phases of her life.

The good, the bad...

the downright ugly!

Now mind you...most of these are school photos...and there were only like 2 people I've ever known in my entire life who actually liked their school photos.

I'm not one of them.

Still - it's kind of fun to see how I've changed throughout the years.

Warning! - I have never been one for my great send of fashion.

My Mom had had it...my daughter is a fashion plate, but me....not so much.

You'll get the idea soon!

Ok...here I am in kindergarten! Awwwww....glad to be plaid, cute little button nose...freckles!

This is first grade - missing a tooth...mauve is sooooooo not my color.

2nd grade and my first pair of glasses that I picked out all by myself!

I thought they were really cool at the time!

I am also sporting the female version of the "leisure suit". All polyester all the time!

Should have kept the bangs...I have a big forehead.

3rd or 4th Grade...not sure.

Ditched the glasses for picture day. Look how big the lapels are on this shirt!

Buttoned all the way to the top no less!

Oh uh...puberty got hold of me and turned me into a greasy stringy miserable mess. (This was the Beanbag Chronicle era...see what I mean?)

That kind of looks like a "Christmas Sweater" doesn't it?

Is it my imagination or did my forehead get bigger in this picture?

I look a kind of tired.

Probably just dreading picture day.

This was 7th or 8th grade - it's getting a little better.

All of a sudden...I've got boobs and I'm a red head. ???

Wait...is that a BIG ZIT ON MY CHIN!?

Geez...couldn't they have air brushed that out?

This is from my sophomore year in high school - back in plaid. I actually like this one.

That's not a zit on my cheek BTW...it's a mole.

Junior year in high school...damn my hair was long!

There is a hint of eye shadow on my eyes. I did go through a "make up" phase in my life form 1980 to about 1985.

Never learned how to turn down the shine on that forehead though...eeeks.

I'll have to see if I can find my senior high school picture somewhere.

BIG transformation, especially when you have Glamour Shots hired to do the photos!!!