Full Lunar Eclipse... And Change About...

February 20th was my birthday... and a Full Lunar Eclipse! And a full moon, to boot... it may not have been a complete full moon, but it was, indeed, full... as was the eclipse. Wow! How special is that for a birthday present!

This is one of several photographs that Gary and I took last evening. We positioned ourselves on the dark and lonely dirt road next to the graveyard, across from the pond. Twice we had to move, because, wouldn't you know, here comes somebody, on a road like that, late at night, and at a time like that! After he left, here comes a game warden! Then we ran out of memory and had to run back to the house. There, we switched from the red truck to the green car, and made our way back in five minutes flat... only to have lost sight of the moon, thick clouds passing over. Gary thinks all the photos are crappy, but I think they're special. Afterall, it was my birthday :-)


In celebration of my birthday and the full moon eclipse, I dug up and scanned a few old photos, taken in the days of my innocence... and when a smile was quick and easy. Life is full of change for me, now... so full, in fact, that it seems to be standing still... I need some movement, for a Wind to Blow.



























What a laugh. There's my Junior and Senior Proms, 1971 & 1972. Those are for you, Sing! What weird hair, in the lavender dress, almost looks like Little House On The Prairie... but I loved that dress, and I still have it, yes I do! The next year, I was looking much more confident. I guess, by then, I had become experienced? I did my own hair, back then, cutting it with a razor blade. Can ya tell? I've been thinking of doing it again, easy upkeep... washed and dried in five minutes! I really like the football picture, it was taken on the beach, with a couple of crazy girlfriends. We were actually at a Baptist Young Women's convention at Myrtle Beach. Those were the days! There's a couple of party pictures in there, and me cleaning the cabinets with Liquid Gold... and I'll let you figure out which are the party pics. There's a couple of honeymoon pictures... the one on the rocks, with brown leather coat, and the closeup in the brown leather... and what ensemble wouldn't be complete without blue canvas hightop sneakers??? One on the rooftop, wild haird... and one that my dad took of me all dressed up in brightly colored garb and a huge pair of sunglasses. I loved those sandals, I had them in purple and pink... and I loved that skirt, but that shirt was waaaay too bright! And those glasses waaaay too big, but they sure blocked the sun! I couldn't leave out my hippie pictures, my very first hip-hugger jeans, with big brass belt buckle. I really loved those pants, and when bell bottoms came in style my mother slit the sides and added red and white material, trying to make them into bell bottoms... and you can see I wore the tail-end out, and just patched that too! My niece told me I looked like a dog in that red halter top pic, I guess she didn't like hippies :( Hail Hippies! Then there's the really silly looking wind blown hairdo, standing on the beach in the orange shorts. Last but not least, there's a pic of me after I had just come in from running, wearing my youngest son's Mickey Mouse hat... And I saw that concert tour, that I was wearing on my shirt. It was fantastic! Go U2! Go Bono!

Most of those pics are taken before I had braces. I didn't get braces until I was 30 years old. But, the pics are from age 17 to 40 something...

I needed a boost, a reminder of the changes... and all that's yet to come. I needed to remember those days. Because I looked innocent... happy... hopeful... playful... serene... joyful... peaceful... adventuresome... and dopey and silly? I hope they will help you remember your own days gone by.

Peace & Love...