CELEBRATING 750 WEEKS OF SEPIA SATURDAY
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 at work. This
prompt allowed me to share a favorite picture of my husband’s grandmother with
his young mother gazing out a window.
This prompt prompted me to
share a picture of the snowwoman I made in 1962 at Heavenly Valley Ski Resort
in south Lake Tahoe except mine wasn’t in quite so much detail. J
I also enjoyed working
with this particular prompt because it allowed me to include a few favorite “Calvin
& Hobbs” cartoons about the little kid who loved to build kooky snow people.
This prompt of a woman
looking at herself in a mirror had me researching mirror images of all kinds
and the following is my favorite:
The woman is either
packing or unpacking a suitcase. I chose
to imagine she was packing for a trip to visit a friend except in an earlier
time period. So . . . what was my make-believe
person going to pack for her visit?
Her friend is an avid
tennis player so she’d better pack her new tennis outfit.
And she mentioned something about going to the
beach so she’d best take her favorite swim dress.
What if there is to be
dancing? Better pack a ball gown!
152 weeks later her
granddaughter was worrying about what to wear to a company dinner:
A little black dress?
Or her red dress that might
make her handsome single boss sit up and take notice?
I bought a trunk exactly
like this one 50+ years ago at a flea market for $25. I kept it for many years always meaning to
fix up the inside of it with fancy paper, but never got around to it and
eventually gave it to a friend whose hobby was fixing up and finishing off
things like this. Unfortunately I never
got to see it all fixed up as we moved before she finished it.
After we moved to a
smaller house I had to remind myself, when something caught my eye, to think
about whether or not I had room for it and/or what I’d have to give away in order to have room for it so my interest
in perusing thrift shops & flea markets kind of waned and I gave quite a
few things I’d collected over the years, away.
My Mom told me this would happen as I got older. I didn’t believe her at the time, being still
young and enthusiastic about putting collections together. But she was right. You should always listen to your Mom! J
Teddy bears! I love ‘em so this prompt was a chance to
show off a partial collection of some of my teddy bear collection (which has
since been whittled down a bit!) Some
are particularly special and those I still have. The polar bear is made in a way that when picked
up almost automatically throws its paws around you and gives you a hug. I gave him to my Mom after my Dad passed
away. The two bears next to him were
specially ordered bears which my husband gave me – one for a birthday, one for
Mother’s Day. J
The little tiny one in front reminds me of the tiny bears my brother and
I pretended were real. We didn’t have
pets when we were growing up, so we fixed up cardboard boxes as a place where our
tiny bears could live and pretended they were our pets. J
The picture below of a little
bear ‘playing’ the piano is a favorite.
The “One Note Samba” bear.
¯“This is just a little
samba built upon a single note.
Other notes are bound to
follow but the root is still that note.
Now this new one is the
consequence of the one we’ve just been through
As I am bound to be the
unavoidable consequence of you.
There’s so many people who
can talk and talk and talk and just say nothin’ or nearly nothin’.
I have used up all the scale
I know and at the end I’ve come to nothin’, or nearly nothin’.
So I’ll come back to my
first note as I must come back to you.
I will pour into that one
note all the love I feel for you.
Anyone who wants the whole
show, re mi fa so la ti do
May find himself with no show, better play the note you know!”¯
To hear Eydie Gormet sing it, click here (or copy & click):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-IEHJVG-iE
Teddy bears aren’t wild
animals, and this monkey doesn’t appear to be wild now, but he was once until
captured, so I entitled my post linked to this prompt “Befriending Wild Things”
which allowed me to share a wonderful story for the first time. J
The story of Ella the pigeon who flew into our yard one morning and decided to stay and who liked to sit on my knee when I was reading in my gazebo. Y
So Happy 570 weeks’ Birthday to Sepia Saturday with (hopefully) many more to follow!
:->
La Nightingail
P.S.
This prompt ran 192 weeks too soon for the story of Ella, but I wonder if it was a premonition? J
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