Category Archives: nostalgia

Rainier ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Letters

My Oh My!  

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

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

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

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

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

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