Category Archives: nostalgia

~ Tuesday Two by Two + WPC ~ Connected ~

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Lindy Le Coq

For the love of open windows, lumpy seats, stick shifts with gears grinding… …and an eight cylinder engine growling and rumbling over gravel roads! In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.”

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Fill ‘er Up! ~ Sunday Stills ~ Sepia

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Lindy Le Coq

This bedraggled gasoline pump caught my eye when I walked by, and seemed a fitting subject for sepia coloration. Those were the days — when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon!

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Avacado Mixmaster ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Relic

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Lindy Le Coq

Mom gave me this Sunbeam Mixmaster, top of the line in 1969, as a wedding gift. Avacado was the color rage then, along with Tangerine and Lemon. Every time I pull it out, I think of Mom; what a good … Continue reading →

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Rainier ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Letters

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Lindy Le Coq

My Oh My!

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Slo + Fast = Faster! ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Looking Down

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Lindy Le Coq

This is the view from the second story of Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) looking down at my friend from college days, Al Young’s, 1970 Dodge Challenger Drag Racer in which Al won a long list of local … Continue reading →

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Greatness and Sacrifice ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Monument

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Lindy Le Coq

It was 1960, I was eleven years old and had traversed 3,000 miles across the USA with my family in a station wagon hauling a travel trailer. We started in the middle of Washington state, and landed in Boston. During … Continue reading →

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First Date ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Treasure

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Lindy Le Coq

In October, 1967, I was a freshman at the University of Washington. Mutual friends introduced Creighton to me ~ we clicked. On our first date he took me to the Farrells Ice Cream parlor in Bellevue. This fragile plastic giraffe … Continue reading →

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Telling Time – Time Will Tell – Daily Prompt: Back to the Future

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Lindy Le Coq

It was his maternal grandfather’s clock, then his mother’s and now it is his and mine. A spring powered Seth Thomas Calendar Clock, c.1878, it chimes on the hour and in the lower window has a calendar that displays the … Continue reading →