Tag: summer
group name: unexpectedbeauty
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July 06, 2007 05:46 PM EDT --
Halcyon Days of Bubble Gum and Baseball Cards
Was the Bazooka gum popular because of the Topps cards or were the cards popular because of the gum?
I long for those idyllic times when . . . more
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August 23, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
My Canon Camera Program keeps all my photos in a collection by the date I took them.
Sometimes that's handy and sometimes it not but for today lets talk about summer and these photos . . . more
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August 26, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
Last week I was looking through a summer issue of a magazine put out by the Government run Liquor Board - the LCBO. The magazine comes out several times a year and is of course advertising what . . . more
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August 24, 2008 08:06 AM EDT --
Our son invited to come to his place of work on a Saturday to see just exactly what he does.
To get there we had to follow the highway by Hamilton Ontario and over the skyway bridge past Hamilton . . . more
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August 20, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
Okay - 2nd try here. Let's hope it's a charm.............
Click on the photos below this essay to see them properly.
While on vacation at Silver Lake near Mears, MI, the . . . more
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August 18, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
I'm back from my family vacation. It was spent near Silver Lake in Mears, Michigan. Lake Michigan was just a big sand dune away. I love living in close proximity to the Great Lakes. Did you know Michigan . . . more
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August 28, 2008 08:09 AM EDT --
Figh ts and chocolat es
A trivial fight has spread over, burnt
and left its ashes. All around.
While you are thinking of the blood desert
of war and I am of a world
in domestic pitch . . . more
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August 02, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
Tonight, just after dark set in, my husband came in from the patio and wanted me to come out and see something. I was on the phone with a worker and kind of waved him off. After I hung up I came out . . . more
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June 13, 2007 03:57 AM EDT --
Are you a person that looks forward to all the extreme rides at the amustment parks. Do you like the speed, height or dare devil turns, have there been some rides that you would never go on . . . more
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June 13, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
Across the forested hills I gazed,
And pondered on long summer days.
The waving tans of ripened grass,
The fading bloom of the wild rose.
Reddening sunset glowing along a ridge; . . . more
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August 24, 2008 01:04 AM EDT --
Some more of my favorites thorough the years.
Use the picture browser bar below to see any larger.
. . . more
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October 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
The company I work for is famous for last minute work assignments. It is not uncommon to be called on Friday or Saturday and told you need to be all the way across the country for work on Sunday . . . more
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August 30, 2007 05:30 AM EDT --
Dear Gather Friends,
As I was taking a walk a while ago I thought I would like to share my neighborhood with you all. What started out as a simple enough project turned into about ten days of . . . more
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June 26, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
The approaching laughter of the children told Jimmy to fire up the music on the aging carousel. He set down the oil can he had been using to lubricate the various moving parts and flipped the switch which . . . more
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August 01, 2008 02:40 PM EDT --
This is a rather old story, but I've forgotten to add it here to Gather, so here it is!
This year the theme for summer reading was to "Catch the Reading Bug" and naturally it was bug . . . more
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August 29, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
These are my 'summerpics' I call "lucky shots" since they have an added 'bonus' in the shot,--- all are pictures of (yeah, you guessed it) flowers but two. Each have an . . . more
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June 04, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
I was never a good bike rider. Growing up my younger sister was the athletic one. I would tag around with her when she rode. I think when I was 10, maybe, on my first bike ride of the . . . more
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June 11, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
Well, remember that egg we had on the milkweed at the library? Well once we got into the car it was gone... and we worried that it fell off. How terrible would that have been?
We had seen something . . . more
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July 06, 2007 03:48 AM EDT --
I'm getting on you know
My age is creeping up
My movements are quite slow
I no longer am a pup
My bones are getting creaky
The aches all . . . more
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August 09, 2008 08:19 AM EDT --
A call from an immigrant
The crisscross of rain draws meaningless things
and erases them in the next moment
on the old glass of the pristine cafe.
Tan skin of his fiongers
play with the . . . more
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