Overlooked pics
I’ve been sorting through the gazillions of photographs on my computer today. Many are ones that I scanned from the days of film photography. And, of course, the rest are from the digital age. There are a lot of stories contained in each image. Two of them that I’m fond of are below.
This one is of the lad when he was five years old. Never one to be shy in front of the camera, we decided to take portraits of him for his Grandma for Mother’s Day. He really hammed it up for me and this is one of my all time favorites. His Grandma loved it, too. I miss those days.
larger image
Here we have a digital photograph of a lovely lady who spent a season by my current house dining on whatever might fly into her web. She spent hours, everyday, repairing her web after the damage her meals caused when they got caught in her web. I thought she was a beautiful creature. She was a Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) and she wove a circular (orb) web.
That pose just cracked me up. But it’s so in keeping with his personality.
That picture is really nicely done. The setting is dramatic, but no so that it takes away from the central point of the photo.
I’d forgotten how my boys’ pants used to gap like that in the back. Funny.
Every time I see that picture the snippet of Frost’s poem runs through my mind—“the woods are lovely, dark and deep.”
It was at least another couple of years before his jeans fit properly. There was either too much waist room or not enough butt room. Little kids are shaped differently than bigger kids, but the jeans patterns don’t seem to take that into account.
That’s a darling picture. I’ll bet it seems like you just took it last week, and now he’s fixing to finish high school.
You’re right, Terrilynn. It doesn’t seem very long ago at all. I remember that day very clearly. We had such fun taking the pictures. How the years have rushed by.
OMG, that is my most favorite pic of him. You do still keep one on the microwave right? You can’t see it but he had the most adorable little tail in those days people!
And please put a warning sign up when posting that pic of that dang spider again! Shivers. 
Posted by justme on 10/10/05 at 10:15 AM
LOL. A hair tail. Not the other kind. I still have it in a little box, by the way. Braided and very, very blond.
And yep, the pic is still on top of the microwave. 
Next entry: Adapting
Previous entry: SATs again
Um, he’s got a real future posing for Playgirl, draped across that rock.