In March, 2024, as I’m typing this, we’re still in late winter here. During these colder months where I live, I spend time maintaining and improving the interior of my home and digging through papers and photos and clothes and boxes of “whatever”. I try to throw things out, or recycle them, or donate them. I’m doing better at that than I used to! 🙂
The other day I came across an entire box full of poems and jokes that my mother had saved. She saved them by typing them on paper using her old 1950’s typewriter (not old to her!). I will scan a few and share them with you. The ink and type style certainly isn’t as clear as Microsoft Word but they were typed by my mother’s own hand. And her typing is perfect. 🙂 So, here are a few of my momma’s favorite text quotes … and a few of my favorite digital images from more recent times mixed in.
First up, a few digital images that I like. 🙂
Peter Cottontail
Benjamin Cottontail
A few of my momma’s best-loved goofy quotes … (click on the text below to enlarge it to make it easier to read).
And here are more digital images that friends have shared with me …
Below, a Scottish highland red squirrel … and then next below, another one taking a well-earned nap.
More from my momma …
I had to look up PSI … paranormal or psychic phenomena or powers. So the poem wonders about skies filled with such powers that anyone and everyone can use. How cool! 🙂
And this (below) from the internet. Keep in mind, anything divided by zero is … ZERO. Do the math. 🙂
More wonderful images …
And this last (below), my momma’s favorite … and mine. 🙂
My momma, born in 1910, always wanted to go into space, she yearned to be an astronaut when that sort of thing started happening. She would have done anything to go into space. She was one of the first women to be a nurse anesthetist in Washington State, much less in the entire USA. She was brilliant. When I double-majored in advanced mathematics and in computer programming in college in the 1960s, she studied right along with me, maybe not understanding every detail because she didn’t have the background education that I had, but she sure was just a step or two behind me. Hence her love of those text sayings above.
Lastly, I found the image below on a website. The photo was taken by a woman of a lake in Glacier National Park in the state of Montana, USA. I was amazed by this photo. (click to enlarge)
I was so amazed that I started playing with the photo digitally, changing it, with light and color, etc. Eventually I simply turned the photo upside down …
I thought my upside-down photo was stunning, with that island in the sky. I still do. So I emailed the woman who took that original photo and I shared this upside-down photo with her. I said I surely didn’t need credit for it since it was her photo, after all, but I thought the two photos together were truly stunning. She never replied, never answered. I tried six times. No answer.
I still think both photos are amazing. But mostly I love my momma’s love of science and math and medicine … and her support of my endeavors as well. She also had such a kind heart … and such a light-hearted fun sense of humor. Without music, life would B-flat! She would have loved that. 🙂