Travel Spots

Strange and eerie, a bamboo forest.

A black forest.

Tea fields

 A mine.

The big dipper in the night sky

The attachment that came in yesterday was all about the different areas within our world.    I couldn't put them all up, one was just as beautiful as another, all interesting and all places I've never been and will never get to.   Each country has something to offer and it is always such a joy to go and visit to see these places for yourself, but then it is not possible for some of us, so arm chair travel is next best. 

The Big Dipper picture brought back some memories.    Living here on the Oregon Coast we do not get to see a sky filled with stars.   That evening fog rolls in and stays .   The picture brought back an evening some eighty years ago when I was a very little girl sitting outside on the curb with Frankie, along with his six brothers and sisters.    We were celebrating the Fourth of July and had Chinese fire crackers to light up and sparklers to hold and shake around like make believe airplanes flying high in the sky. We looked up into a sky filled with stars and there was the big dipper and we chose the second star on the handle to pledge our friendship for life . . . many times I've looked up to see the big dipper and that is the first thought I've always had.  I often wondered if Frankie remembered.   I hope so.     I loved him and his family forever, and still do, but time and life goes on and we lose contact with childhood friends because the paths we traveled took us far away.   I am sure if any one of the family walked in my door today, I wouldn't feel any different than I did that Fourth of July, some eighty years ago.

I hope you have some folks like that in your life.    I hope you remember them with love and are thankful for the wonderful memories of yesteryear.    All it takes is one picture and the smiles come and stay.     It is the so called hump day today, mid week, chores to do, good bye to our Christine today as she wends her way up the highway and back home.   We have had a busy week and a fun one.    She did a great job getting one of my stories on the Amazon program and I already have confirmation that my books will arrive the first week of September.  I can hardly wait to see them and hold one in my hand.    I hope you have a hobby that bring pleasure into your life and those of others.    So put a smile on your face and open up that mind of yours and get busy.   Fill your seconds with finishing up that project that will bring joy and love into the lives of those you care about.     Hump day is as good as any to start.    Hugs to all.