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Alien Under Toadstool, Fairy Godmother, too

This weekend I watched Maura (almost 4) while her family went to a swim meet with her brothers and sister. She saw me outside and asked, “Granma, Why are you in the bushes?” When she came over to see what I was doing, she said she liked the Fairy Godmother. One shot of each on the iPhone and then she and I played. I’d been sorting toys in the playroom. Saw the toadstool and went and got the two figurines.

Today’s photos? Just for fun. The fungus was enormous. And I had just been reading an article telling of the two cousins Frances and Elsie photographs with the Cottlingley Fairies. (1917)

Thanks to Annette who wrote and said that “ the blog is a daily vitamin for the creative soul.”

November 4, 2012November 4, 2012 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: alien, Columbus OH, Cottingley Fairies, fairy Godmother, fungus, garden, iPhone, nature, photography, postaday, toadstool, toy, travel 16 Comments

Camera Flash Must Have Awakened This Doll

Last week when I was in Columbus visiting the family, I noticed my youngest granddaughter Maura’s baby dolls all lined up on the ottoman in the family room.

There wasn’t much available light and the auto flash went off on the iPhone as I shot the picture.

It wasn’t until I looked on the screen, that I noticed the middle doll’s expression on her face! I ‘d just been trying to capture the tidy line-up of little doll bodies.

October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 by Ruth Categories: ChildhoodTags: baby doll, childhood, Columbus OH, doll bodies, family, granddaughter, iPhone, photography, postaday, toy, travel 22 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Two Subjects

Christmas 2009
Jack and Woody or rather Woody and Jack

You can check out fellow bloggers responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Two Subjects

April 14, 2012May 28, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: childhood, Christmas, family, photography, postaday, toy, Toy Story, toys, weekly photo challenge: two subjects, Woody 63 Comments

Living proof about the box it came in….

This looks set up but it is as it happened. The first shot a blur with his brother and this one the clearer image but Michael caught me with the camera catching him playing in the box the Lincoln Logs came in-

classic, cliche, you’ve heard it a hundred times but his mom alerted me to witness the occurrence. Loving playing in the BOX!

Later he and his dad built a log cabin and fence but it’s going to take quiet concentration and a day with less activity to master Lincoln Log building skills.

December 26, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, FamilyTags: childhood, Christmas, family, Lincoln Logs, photography, play, postaday2011, toy 16 Comments

Sock Monkey Signage in Museum Exhibit

From the archives. My sister noticed I post a lot of food on the blog. It’s true. Tonight it could have been the pesto on penne and the apple plum one crust pie. Instead I went to an old folder. You probably didn’t know there’s a Sock Monkey Exhibit in the Midway Village Museum in Rockford IL. Mary and I went when we were visiting family. The Rockford socks are no longer manufactured in Rockford but by Fox River Mills in Osage Iowa. I have made a few sock monkeys in my day. People have feelings about Sock Monkeys.There is a convention called Sock Monkey Madness in Rockford. They call the monkey Nelson after the man who invented the knitting machine that made the socks.

October 5, 2010October 4, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, From the ArchivesTags: available light, childhood, craft, Fox River Mills, photography, red heel, Rockford IL, Rockford socks, sewing, sock monkey, sock monkey madness, toy 7 Comments

Emmett Kelly/ “Weary Willie” Clown

My sister thinks we got this hand puppet at the circus. It was before I was 5. Some people have a fear of clowns(coulrophobia)

There is an Emmett Kelly Museum in Sedan, Kansas -born there in 1898. You don’t hear the word “hobo” anymore.

Another find while cleaning out. — How do you feel about clowns?

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August 24, 2010November 6, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, photo of the day, vintageTags: 1950's, available light, childhood, Emmett Kelly, kitchen, memories, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, play, puppet, toy, vintage, Weary Willie 8 Comments

In the Baby Doll Aisle

What were we thinking? We got out of the giant toy store with the item we had on our list but had to add this plastic doll to the cart while we shopped. No real expression of desire until the baby doll aisle— WHOA! Maura became totally animated,pointing, babbling turned to squealing . Loudly. Her mom said we weren’t buying it, so we parked the doll at the front when we checked out. It really didn’t have a nice face! Maura (20 months) didn’t care what it looked like- she wanted them ALL! When she got into the van and was reunited with her doll from home, she was happy. I bought two bottles to feed her doll, the kind you tip and the liquid disappears.

Michael helps his sister Maura at the giant toy store — I Want THAT one!

July 29, 2010July 28, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, photo of the day, PlacesTags: baby doll, childhood, Columbus OH, doll, memories, moment in childhood, photo of the day, photography, toy, toy store 8 Comments

What I Couldn’t Throw Out

Purchased in 1977 in New York City at Creative Playthings. Rubbery farm animals. Nice to clutch and carry around when you’re almost two. I bought them for baby Mark who’s 34 now. Maybe the paint is unsafe for the grandchildren, plus they have a hole in their stomach so whatever dirt and mold in the basement the past 20 years is living inside them. I put them in the contractor bag to drag to the curb and I swear the cow’s eyes looked at me. I took them out. Photographed them.

Toy farm animals from my children's youth — Their faces have the loveliest expressions.

July 23, 2010July 23, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Things, What I FoundTags: available light, back porch, childhood, cow, farm animals, favorite toy of childhood, garbage, horse, memories, photo of the day, pig, Pittsburgh, sheep, toy, toys 13 Comments

Hula Hoop® Revival

I remember having one c.1959. My hula-hooping skills were weak. Got some good sports photography practice capturing Anna (6 1/2) on the back deck. She can do it with very little movement or a lot of twist and sway. She even knelt and “hooped” for what seemed to me to be a long time. Maura(19 mos) clapped and yelled,” Yay Anna”. Perhaps a video camera would have been better but the objective was to show motion with a still photograph. (And I learned how to make the registered trademark symbol using the alt-R on the keyboard)

July 2, 2010July 1, 2010 by Ruth Categories: photo of the dayTags: back porch, childhood, Columbus OH, hula hoop, memories, photo of the day, photography, summer, toy 6 Comments

Baby Doll Flies Like a Flag on the Moon

Where a house used to be, unshoveled steps to an empty lot. An iron pipe for a rail. What’s left of it. On the way to school I look up and see this bizarre sight. Pulled over, flashers on, catch of the day, one block from school Thursday morning. Had to look up the definition of stock-still

a rubber baby doll stuck on an iron rail on an abandoned lot a block from school — Just like the flag planted on the moon, immobile.

March 12, 2010March 12, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Things in the Snow, What I Saw on the Way to SchoolTags: arlington, available light, childhood, city scene, doll, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, school, sidewalk, snow, south side, toy, winter scene 11 Comments

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