Ok, today’s offering isn’t technically brilliant (actually, if I’m being honest it’s terrible – I didn’t even get the whole picture in the shot!) and I didn’t take it today (it was only yesterday though) but it’s one of those pictures that is so full of memory (for me) that I just had to post it.
When I was a small person myself, my grandmother used to take me to the Horniman Museum on a fairly regular basis. The one thing that I remember was an Indian sand painting. I couldn’t remember whether it was an actual sand painting or just a reproduction of it or even really what it looked like, but my grandmother has a jigsaw puzzle of it that I can remember doing every single time I went to visit her for a long time. I went back to the museum yesterday for the first time in years and when I walked in and saw this on the wall it brought such a strong surge of memories of my grandmother (who isn’t dead, it’s just that I’ve moved away and don’t see her nearly as often as I used to) that I almost burst into tears.
How strange the things that jog our memories are.






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4 May, 2008 at 3:27 am
gawdess
oh my, I got a “i know what she means” kind of feeling when I was reading this! Lovely picture, really, it adds so much to the story.
4 May, 2008 at 5:38 am
Backpacking Dad
that’s a fabulous picture. I love seeing the three of you (4 of you?) in the reflection.
4 May, 2008 at 5:01 pm
yankeetransferred
Lovely back story to a great photo. I do not agree with you that it is “terrible.”