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GARDEN SEATINGS: ELEGANT, PRETTY, WHIMSICAL, & MINE

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  Comes close to the prompt. Elegant I love swings.  They look pretty here, but maybe that's a few too many pillows?  And I’d have the place lit by the outer lanterns sitting around and do away with the overhead lighting in order to keep flying things from swarming me.  Let them swarm around the outer lanterns! A lovely place to rest along the path. Nostalgic A sweet spot to enjoy a tall glass of iced tea or lemonade, perhaps a mint julep on a hot day.  I have a bistro set much like this in red.  Those chairs are surprisingly comfortable with or without cushions. J A pretty butterfly bench.  Yellow is my favorite color, but benches like this one come in a kaleidoscope of colors with all manner of winged-shaped things. Cute Why not have your tea inside a teapot. Or sit inside a snail I don’t know about sitting inside here, though?  Whoa! Fancy a tree house?  Once upon a time something like this would’ve been a dreamy delight.  Now, with ...
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DANCING WITH THE STARS, er, FOLKS

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  I was 11 or 12 when I was dancing with a folk dance group in grade school. My eldest daughter was around the same age when she dressed up for Halloween as a Dutch girl in a similar costume. In 1997 we were visiting friends in Sitka, Alaska, home of the New Archangels Dancers and caught one of their shows.  It’s an all women dance troop and they were amazing. They perform all over the world. Cute costume in either color. I remembered "Snow White" wore one of those black corset-vests in one of my favorite books from my childhood. And yep – there she is. “Beauty” from “Beauty & the Beast” in another of my favorite childhood books called “Old Time Fairy Tales” wore one too. But why be limited to black when you can have beautiful prints like these?   "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" :-> La Nightingail
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WELCOME TO MY CHANGING HAIR STYLES

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The girl with the Marcel curl High school meant long hair curled under. Or sometimes, a ponytail. Special occasions might call for a chignon. After I graduated from high school and went to work I decided I needed a more up-to-date look so got a short ‘do’. The ‘do’ stayed short but went to a sort of poofed-up page-boy in the 1960s. In 1978 I let my hair grow long again – this time curled out instead of under. In 1985 the hairstyle was still pretty much the same except no more bangs.  In 1988 I had my hair cut short again - this time with a really curly permanent.  OMG – it was awful.  It was just a big ball of frizzy curls all over my head.  Gradually the tight curls loosened, my hair grew, and it looked a little better. After a while, of course, the inevitable happened. I fought it for a while with the help of Miss Clairol - but eventually, I let my hair go silver and had it cut very short (no curls this time!)   It was super easy to care for, but . . . I ...
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A COLLECTION OF CHURCHES & THEIR INTERIORS

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  These folks in their automobile appear to be nicely dressed so I wonder – are they early for church services, or, having mingled with others of the congregation after services, are they now on their way home?  Either way, the church behind them is very handsome – at least I’m assuming it’s a church?  Let’s go with that!   St. Jerome Catholic Church on Carmel Ave. in El Cerrito, Calif. half a block up the street from where I grew up. When I was a little girl my friends and I used to sit on the curb diagonally across from the church on Saturdays to watch the beautiful brides getting married here after which we’d go home and play “getting married”. J Interior of St. Jerome Catholic Church Years later I sang for a friend’s wedding in St. Jerome - not the one pictured here, but I can tell this photo was taken from the rear balcony because I sang from that balcony for her wedding.  Wonderful acoustics. . Funny.  I never thought about it until now, but...
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