THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  An old flatbed truck fixed up nicely. Looks like this old flatbed has gotten a super maxi update. A cage of men on a flatbed truck.  Is it a prisoner transfer wagon?  Are they prisoners? Besides jailbirds, flatbeds can carry flowers . . . and bee hives. Also firewood. They can carry hay.  Add people and you’ve got a hayride. Maybe not to this one, though. They can carry pumpkins. Sometimes BIG ones – although I think this is a faux.  It’s a little too perfect to be real.  Cute, though. They can carry turkeys – though mayhap not quite this many? Or how about one GIANT bird?   You’d need an industrial oven to roast it! They can carry cut trees – ready to be set up and covered with beautiful ornaments. And maybe those trees will be displayed in all their glory on the back of a flatbed truck? Or a string of pretty lights can be arranged on the back of a flatbed to resemble a tree.  Perfect for the annual lighted Christmas parade. They can carr...

  I hope nobody minds, but I had two different ideas for this weekend’s post and couldn’t decide which one to use, so I've posted them both. :[] Filmore’s unfortunate birth defect.   :-> HAPPY TURKEY DAY

  \ THANKSGIVING A FEW YEARS AGO My Mom cutting up the ingredients for the turkey stuffing.  The raw turkey can just be seen at the right-hand edge of the picture. My middle Sis making something for the Thanksgiving feast – probably pumpkin nut bread.  Yum! Dad taking the perfectly roasted turkey out of the oven. And we sat down to a perfect Thanksgiving dinner of turkey with creamy gravy, stuffing (cooked inside the turkey), mashed potatoes, green-bean casserole, & cranberry sauce with pumpkin pie along with Sis's pumpkin nut bread for dessert!  Around the table beginning on the left:  My Grandma Louise, my youngest sister, my brother, me, my middle sis, and Mom. Following dinner,  after Dad got all the leftover turkey carved up and saved for another day, he got to nibble on the carcass. J A decade later at my house the menu was almost exactly the same except by then I was using “Stove Top” boxed turkey stuffing mix.  Nor did we have my sister’s ...

  Celebrating 750 weeks of Sepia Saturday!  I joined Sepia Saturday in 2013 at the urging of my good friend, ScotSue, and I have had such fun being a part of the group.  I love the challenge of finding the right pictures to match the prompt each week – sometimes spot-on, sometimes ‘outside the box’.  Either way it’s something that keeps me thinking and using my memory and my brain which has to be a good thing! But that’s only half of it.  Looking at all your interpretations of the prompt or whatever you choose to share in your posts is enriching and provides a bit of insight into who you are which is fun and interesting.  ScotSue and I have met in person, but the rest of us have not, yet I consider you all good friends and look forward to ‘seeing’ you each week. J Anyway, in celebration of this week’s historic challenge I’m sharing a few of my favorite prompts and why they are some of my favorites. J A young girl gazing out a window while apparently ...