THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  My first ever camera was a little Kodak Brownie like this one. One of the first pictures I took with my new Kodak Brownie was this one of my beloved and first ever parakeet, Tipi-Tin. A few years later I wanted a camera that could take flash pictures allowing me to photograph people and things inside as well as out, so I asked Santa for this Kodak Starmite camera.  One summer I decided to try using my Dad’s old bellows camera but I didn’t do well with it.  I kept forgetting to manually advance the film and was taking double – even triple – exposures all the time.  They were interesting, but not exactly what I was hoping for and I didn’t know it was happening until I had the film developed so much of what I thought I was getting preserved on film was not.  That was a ‘too bad’ summer. Following the fiasco with Dad’s bellows camera, I bought myself Kodak’s skinny 110 model which worked much better. Next up was Kodak’s Advantix 2000 which took even better picture...

  A is for Apples, baked with brown sugar and cinnamon. B is for Bananas, especially paired with peanut butter. C is for Corn on the cob sprinkled with salt & drenched in melted butter. D is for doughnuts - plain cake or old fashioned - dipped in my coffee. My Dad and I both worked across the bay in San Francisco.  Although we commuted to work on different buses, we rode the same bus home - getting off near a local coffee shop where we'd meet my Mom to have coffee and doughnuts before heading home - Mom and Dad to the family home, and me, to my apartment.  It was a special time and a great way to catch up on what was happening with both of them and the rest of my family still living at home. :) E is for eggs - deviled. F is for French fries – crisp, hot, salted & peppered!  No  ketchup. G is for Guacamole! H is for Hawaiian pizza. I is for Irish Cream lattes at Schnoog’s Coffee Shop on Friday  afternoons. J is for Jack cheese, creamy, with peppers....