52 Photos Project

The prompt for Week 16: somewhere you visited

This is Quito, Ecuador—my daughter Katie
and I overnighted here on our way
to and from the Galapagos.
Lovely city, great food, but the altitude
takes its toll: At 9,350 feet, you get
only 60% of the oxygen you'd breathe in
at sea level (where I live).  My legs felt like
they each weighed about 50 pounds!

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The prompt for Week 16: childhood games

This game is from my mom's
childhood—and she's 93!  Her set of
jacks was one of the things that just had
to be saved when her house was
done in by Hurricane Sandy last year.

She made the bag herself—about 85 years
ago(!) from a Domino's sack (apparently
their sugar came in a cloth sack back then).

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The prompt for Week 16:  gift

When I began blogging four years ago,
I never realized how many friends I would
make—and I've been fortunate to meet quite
a few of them actually and not just virtually.
The light-up addition to my Eiffel Tower collection
was a gift from my good blogpal Marylène, whom
I got to spend time with last year when I was in Paris.
Merci encore, Marylène!

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