Welcome to the Photo a Day Project blog, where you can read about my adventures in my quest to take a photo every day for the whole year!
Waiting for Spring
Day 53
I'm a bit behind in my postings, I was tired last night and then of course put it off today until it is late again, so this will be a short one. i noticed this tree on yet another gray sunless day, not sure why I noticed it now, I have passed it about a million times in the last couple of years. I think I spotted it now because I was looking at the sky wondering if spring would ever arrive, or at least start to arrive and if I would ever see the sun again, to me for some reason this tree looks like it is wondering the same thing.
Pictures Pictures Pictures
Day 52
As you can imagine I have tons and tons of photographs, new ones, old ones, digital ones every kind imaginable. I love them, to see old pics of my family are great and to see the styles of the day it is a riot to look back. I have one of my Grandmother Boncaro when she was about 4 years old, it's and original photo and is 96 years old, it has a wrinkle in it but that makes it even better. There is also a photo of her parents when they were young, they both came to this country from Sicily and they are standing there stiff as boards but it's a great pic, also most likely 100 years old. I also have albums filled with photos from both my fathers youth and my mothers, I love to look at them and I don't even want to tell you how many photos I have taken of my sister, she is 9 years younger than I am so she was my model when I started taking photos. And my 2 nieces, forget it the photos of the two of them are filling up my hard drive on my computer as I speak. I will continue to photograph my family as much as they hate it but the future members of my family have to laugh at us just like we laugh at the past generations.
"Memory...is the diary that we all carry about with us." -Oscar Wilde
Bed Time Snack
Day 51
Hot cocoa and cookies are the best invention ever, it's the perfect thing on yet another cold bitter winter night, so I think I will go enjoy mine before it gets cold!
"Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate." -Author Unknown
Walking the Dogs
Day 50
I take out the dogs in the morning which is much easier in the summer than it is in the winter, both for the dogs and me. Usually it takes me longer to get dressed than it does for the dogs to do their business. Actually Simon has it down to just a couple minutes, but Divot for some reason has not figured out that if she smells every blade of grass or flake of snow she is going to get cold, so most mornings it is me and Simon trying to go back in, but we can't because Divot hasn't done anything. And it's Divot trying to levitate herself above the cold ground and looking at me like I am purposely torturing her, but she will finally do something and in we go, and I get undressed and the dogs go back to bed while I finish getting ready for work. They have the life.
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." -Andy Rooney
Pennies
Day 49
I admit it, I am one of those people who save their change, I put it in a big jar and when it gets full I wrap it up and bring it to the bank, it's like a little present I didn't now I had. I usually buy myself something I had been wanting, or use it for vacation something fun. My Grandfather Boncaro used to keep his pennies, he would put them in cups everywhere, pennies all over the house, in drawers, in little cups on end tables, in cabinets...everywhere. I must have inherited that trait from him. My Grandmother Pioli gave me this little piggy bank way back when I was in high school, more than thirty years ago (holy cow). I filled it with pennies, probably no more than two dollars worth and then put it on my shelf. I have had it ever since, it has followed me to a couple different houses but I still have it. I have no intention of ever 'breaking' it open, it reminds me of all of my grandparents and the little things that I remember about each one of them, fun little things that made each one of them unique and special to me.
"Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven." -Johnny Burke
