Oh Those Old Pictures

I am so very happy to hear that more than me enjoy their wine with ice.  I get the evil eye from my friend Mark who makes his own wine and LOVES the reds.  Mine has to be lightweight and sweet.  I don't buy much though because I forget to drink it and six months later I throw it out.  On to the blog.

I haven't given you many laughs lately, so today is the day.  Many moons ago when I was skinny as a rail from running, I took a photography class with a few of my friends at the local college.  We were required to do lots of weird stuff, including having more than one of you in the picture.

Yes ... this is my Yellow Corvette that I dearly loved.  She was fast as lightning and twice as pretty.  Alas, when I went crazy and bought an RV house to travel the roads, I needed a tow vehicle.  This did not quite fit the bill, so I regrettably sold it and bought my Jeep.  This shot was awarded a grade of Excellent.

If you weren't your own model, you were someone else's.  Here's the laugh of the day.  One of the guys wanted a picture of me on my Harley.  I agreed, but only if I didn't have to look mean.  Yeah, this looks pretty awful to me.  The Harley is gorgeous, as is the church ... but my face is another story.  He kept telling me not to laugh or smile.  I think this was maybe 12 years ago.  Surprisingly, he got an Excellent grade too.

Next up ... photograph the homeless.  That's a little more difficult because they don't really like you taking their picture.  So I talked my best friend into posing in this abandoned vegetable stand just down the road.  The garbage is actually hers that she was taking to the trash can when I called.  

If nothing else, photography can be hilarious and fun.  We always had a great time and laughed ourselves silly on these photo shoots.

And so it's time to prep the food for Mother's Day.  We will have pastries, fruit, scrambled eggs, Denver omelet eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, ham, sausage and waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.  Follow that up with my all time favorite ... COSTCO CAKES!  Hopefully it will only take two hours to get the prep work done.  

Sunday will be a long day of cooking from 6 am to 1pm.  I'm leaving the cleanup to someone else.

This last picture was also part of that photography class.  We had to find an old torn, dirty picture and bring it back to life by using Photoshop.  I had to laugh this time because even my Instructor didn't think this photo would turn out so well.  

That is my Grandmother in the white dress.  Her parents behind her were married AFTER he divorced his first wife.  Hard to believe they did that in the old days.  Seven kids were from the previous wife and five from his new wife, the last of which was my grandmother.  Hardy stock they were, dressed in their finest.  It was also funny that all the kids stayed with the father and were raised in Colorado.

And so I'm off down the well worn rutted wagon trail to the Elks Lodge.