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birthday girl
I was surely an unfortunate-looking kid, with those teeth coming in all over the place and my cat-eye glasses and sort of everything else. I looked nearly as unfortunate as that birthday cake.
My grandparents weren’t close (physically or emotionally) and decorating this birthday cake with my grandmother is practically the only memory I have of doing anything with her. That’s really sad and weird, but it’s just the way things landed.
And speaking of landing, check out the way that nasty ashtray landed itself right in the middle of the table, right there by my sister’s milk.
Sonora, Texas
scanned family photo – 1964
the four chesters
Yeah, I don’t know what these photos were for – some sort of ID badges maybe? What’s even more of a mystery is why lots of lots of copies (11 of one of them!) were saved all this time.
But this is what my dad looked like (from the front AND from the side) at a couple of points in time.
scans, vintage photos
dates unknown
italian fashion is for real
In case you were wondering, there IS something eye-catching and a little bit exciting in Italian fashion. It is beautiful and it looks effortless (but I bet it’s not!). And somehow, even though we were melting in the heat, the fashionably-dressed Sicilians always looked fresh and comfortable. (Except maybe the ones wearing those very tall shoes…)
Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022
holds the treasure you seek
I can’t remember how I found this grotto, but that doesn’t really matter too much: the point is that I did find it.
Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022
jesus and roses
The thing about traveling in a group of photographers is that sometimes they get clumped up because everyone needs (Needs, I say!) that shot from that angle in that light of that Duomo. Or whatever. It can (and did) get frustrating. But if I hadn’t been all pissy way back there at the back of the clump, I probably wouldn’t have noticed the shrine in the wall. And I still got the obligatory shot of the Duomo.
Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022
