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Month: July 2025
346 Main Street in Etna
Summer Evening in Aspinwall
AVVA in Aspinwall modern Mediterranean Restaurant
My neighbor Kelly picked me up and we drove across the Allegheny River to meet our former neighbor Nancy who was waiting for us on the front patio of a restaurant I’d never been to before. We had a good visit catching up and enjoyed a delicious meal together. The Katmer dessert was new to us and we shared the lightly fried triangles of phyllo dough with a pistachio filling.
Katmer
Thin layer of phyllo dough filled with a mixture of pistachios and mascarpone
Childhood c.1915 Durand Illinois
Wordless Wednesday
Playing Along with a Numbers Game a Little Late to the Party
Here’s how it went today.
Sheree, a frequent blog commenter, posted six photos from a search photo game that resulted in finding 5,579 Images. Wow.
So her View from the Back blog THE NUMBERS GAME #6, MONDAY 7 JULY, 2025linked to the inspiration and photo search game creator Life Lessons blog by JudyDykstraBrown, who inspires bloggers regularly on Mondays.
Here’s how to play the numbers game: You go to your photos and enter the number 201 in the search bar and choose photos to post from the results of the search. Of course every week it’s a different number. My problem is that my initial results started including all the photos from the years 2015 2016 2017 2018 and 2019 as the number 201 was at the beginning of the years.
But I figured it out. Here’s a gallery of my number (201) photos. An eclectic mix.
I realize my life has a predictable quality as I peruse the images. Just last week I was shooting snack cakes, chips and donuts at a gas station in Zanesville Ohio. Ice cream sandwiches. And I photographed in a diner just today. No fish market shots but I shot signage several times recently. It’s what I notice. And you know I’ve been photographing knitting a lot lately.
See additional current gallery below. I digress.
The current images below show similar subjects from what I harvested from the archives. A store front, an historical marker (not in braille though) signage and sock knitting. Photographing snack cakes. And coffee voices.
Seasonal Yard Art in Toronto Ohio
First Saturdays there’s knitting at Tri B’s Coffee Shop.
My friend Lisa and I drove down on Saturday morning to be part of the knitting and crochet group.
This is what we saw on the way home. Quick Lisa, grab my phone and take some pictures. An unwitting guest blogger now!
No more photography for me at traffic lights. There’s a $650 fine for touching your phone when the motor is on- even if you’re stopped at a red light.
So thank you Lisa. You just don’t see July Fourth inflatables everyday.
And what a surprise by Alicia’s mother, Faith. Remember the 40th bday cake complete with fountains she created for her daughter’s fortieth?
P.S.
Look at these delicious birthday cupcakes (3 flavors) and how about the yarn ball napkins? Thank you Alicia and Faith for the birthday surprise.
Silent Sunday
It was a happy birthday
Grateful to celebrate another year!
photo taken by our sister Mary
My friend Vincie took me to a delicious birthday dinner at Off the Hook on my birthday eve tonight. Here’s the fancy dessert.
Happy birthday to me😂
Four Generations
On my mother’s side.
I realized I posted this photograph five years ago. But they were still looking at me in my living room today
Melburn Clark Potter (1906-1940), my mother’s grandmother Mary Smith Rowley (1857-1917) in the middle and my mother’s Great Grandmother Charlotte Ann Clark Smith (1834-1926)
