black eyed susans

Seeing Black Eyed Susans makes my mind flash to a photo taken many years ago, I must have been six or seven years old in the photo. My blond hair is in pigtails (I always liked to pretend they were dog ears) and I'm wearing a yellow bathing suit with flowers on it. I was at the creek with my mom and in the photo I'm really smiling (I look a wee bit ornery too), so I assume I must have been having fun - I usually did with my mom. Boy, was that little girl clueless about where her life would lead! I cannot even be positive that Black Eyed Susans bloomed on the banks of the creek. But in my far away memory, they are blooming there still.

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a bird and a unicorn

I'm using a little creative liberties with my camera critters this week, hope you don't mind. This little bird ornament was a set of 6, I think, that was given to my parents when I was small. My dad had a camera store and one of his customers was an art teacher (I believe) and he made, and gave them, to my parents for Christmas one year.

Another year he gave them a set of unicorns. As far as I know these are the only two left, and each year as I hang them on my tree I am momentarily swept back to my childhood and our artificial white Christmas tree decked out with red lights and red ornaments and few happy birds and unicorns.