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Photo Friday, No. 635

Current Photo Friday theme: Dog


Funny thing. I have possibly 25,000 photos of dogs. But I scanned this beat up old snapshot from one of my photo albums for this week’s theme.

This is Hamlet. He was my dog during the most tumultuous years of my life. I would NOT relive my twenties for anything this world could offer. Hamlet was a better friend to me than I was to him, I know. Everything he taught me has benefitted every dog in my life since.

Photo Friday, No. 634

Current Photo Friday theme: Skyline


Every little piece of skyline in Manhattan is special to someone for some reason.

Now that my photo albums are back home where they belong, I’m going to be using them for some of these Photo Friday challenges. It’s fun to look back at the days when I shot with film. This was taken on my first trip to New York City in February 1998. Considering all the amazing skyline shots in the world of NYC, this one isn’t impressive. But it still thrills me. I took it from my hotel room looking at Madison Square Garden. I love remembering my first time in Manhattan, navigating how to hail a taxi, using the subway, and walking–SO MUCH WALKING–mostly solo. And then there were all the outings with James, who flew with me from Houston and stayed with his sister, and my first meetings with Tim and Timmy (and Michael and Jean-Marc) and all the fun things we did.

Photo Friday, No. 631

Current Photo Friday theme: Christmas

At our closing on the house in November 2014, our realtor handed us this ornament of Snoopy on his doghouse. It was perfect, as we both love Snoopy and though we didn’t know it, the house was destined to be called Houndstooth Hall in honor of the hat of the legendary Bear Bryant, coach of our alma mater, and in recognition that dogs are an essential part of our lives and history.

Snoopy hung on the tree in 2015 and 2016. Then last year, when the floods of Harvey canceled Christmas… no tree, no Snoopy. It was a profoundly satisfying moment to hang the ornament on our tree this year. What a long way we’ve come in the last sixteen months.