Hello Kittens & Dawgs, I’d like to first invite you to vote in yesterday’s BoTB. Did you vote? Go ahead, I’ll wait for you!
Alrighty, now that you’re back I will resume. 🙂
Last week Tuesday Chatter hosted by Eugenia from BrewNSpew word challenge was ‘gloaming’. Poetry eludes me till words play out in my head and that’s what happened on Thursday, the word came together using my recent sketch I call Autumn Bliss.
©2018 Cathy Kennedy
In the gloaming…
the day’s humming ending
shifting to night’s beginning
sitting in my quiet
I contemplate my diet
over the riot
between naughty & delicious
and healthy & nutritious
how will I decide
Last month, you might remember we went back to DH’s boyhood home to collect some things that belonged to us and to get some items that were left to him in his parents’ will. I managed to score on getting some family photographs, not all of them but some. I’m currently working on scanning old pictures and documents to digital format to share with others. It makes looking at these sorts of things a lot easier if they are organized in computer files instead of in albums or boxes.
One of the old pictures I scanned was severely damaged. Years ago the same photo was in a family album which I scanned but the quality wasn’t the best so I did it again now that I have it. I used a high resolution for this scan, then I decided to play with it in Pixelmator to see what I can do with it. The results stunned even me and I was the one working with it.
I’ll never get the picture purrfect but it’s far improved with the adjustments made using Pixelmator. I’m rather happy with the way it turned out. What do you think?
You’re probably asking, who’s in the picture? The adult male is Charlie Mullins (DH’s maternal grandfather), the adult woman is Bertha Mullins Mullins. No, that’s not a typo. Mamaw was a Mullins before she married Paw. 🙂 The little girl to the far left (your right side) is my late mother-in-law, Dorothy with her sister, Edna next to her, the baby is her sister, Orpha, and the boy I’m not sure which brother it is. There are two other siblings not pictured. I sorta suspect they might have been in school at the time the photograph was made but I’m can’t swear to that. Hopefully, someone can tell me more about the photograph.
I shared a tribute shortly after Dorothy passed in this memory post, however it just occurred to me that I failed to do one for my FIL but I thought I did. I guess it just slipped my mind considering everything that’s on our plate this year. 🙁
I’m linking up taking a coffee break for some with Random Tuesday Thoughts with Stacy Uncorked and you’re invited to come with. Tomorrow, I hope you’ll join me for not-so Wordless Wednesday.
