This photo was taken with my new toy . . . well, sorta . . . it was actually taken with my trusty Canon . . . but it was taken thru the viewfinder of my $11 Kodak Duaflex II Camera . . . the "new" Kodak is shown below . . .
I have seen it said that this is the same style of vintage camera that was used by Sandra Bullock in the movie Hope Floats . . .
Well . . . that suspected four-leaf clover from the St. Patrick's Day photo was indeed a 4-leaf clover . . . growing out of my concrete driveway . . . and it is now pressed between the pages of a 1932 pocket calendar for safe-keeping . . .
Happy St. Patrick's Day, y'all!
I took photos earlier today . . . of a small patch of clover growing out of a crack in the driveway . . . it is under the edge of the race car trailer . . . and I did not look at the photos until tonight . . . do you see that unopened clover leaf just to the right of the middle of the photo? . . . I think I see four individual unopened sections . . . went back outside to check it a few minutes ago, but the clover leafs are all closed up for the night . . . will check it again tomorrow . . .
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of when I began blogging at benotforgot.com . . . so I'm sharing a photo of one of the business cards I designed using Picasa . . . I just picked a background I liked . . . added a few dingbats . . . and the text for the info I wanted to share . . . and printed . . . this one is printed on photo paper . . .
This piece of watermelon tourmaline came home with me from a 1998 trip to Maine . . . not sure if it's actually Maine tourmaline . . . but it was purchased in Maine . . .
During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Was this old Ben's version of Daylight Savings Time?
There were multiple wildfires in North Texas today . . . thousands of acres burned . . . some of them just a few counties west of me . . . so with all that smoke in the air, my camera and I waited patiently for the time of day when we could capture this view . . .
This photo shows the newest additions to my collection of vintage perfume bottles . . . these bottles arrived in the mail yesterday . . . I first started collecting this particular style back in the 1980s . . . when I was doing a lot of counted cross-stitch, tatting, teaching classes at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, et al . . . these were attached as needle-holders to the fabric chatelaines I designed . . .
This photo shows a page from one of my most-used Texas history books . . . Texas Extra - A Newspaper History of the Lone Star State 1835-1935 . . . from the collection of Eric C. Caren . . . it apparently took until the 12th of April in the year 1836 for the news of the fall of the Alamo . . . on the 6th of March . . . to hit the pages of these New York newspapers . . .
