52 Photos Project

The prompt for Week 2: "criss-cross"

I made this cross-stitch sampler for my mother-in-law
—the only Italian mama I ever knew who didn't
much care whether you ate or not—
more than 30 years ago.  She lived with us for a
year and a half before she died and the thing she liked
best about it was that she didn't have to cook!
(Now it's in my kitchen—which is appropriate, 
because I've become a reluctant cook too.)

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52 Photos Project

The prompt for Week 2—"microscopic"

Faced with this challenge, I went on a quest
for the sweetest, eensy-teensiest flowers I could
find at the botanic garden—and here they are:
perfect beauties at +/-  a quarter-inch across.

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52 Photos Project

Prompt for Week 2:
Capture the sun shining in your life

Maybe this is more like the sun shining on my life.
I saw this heavenly light beaming down on the
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and New York harbor as
I was crossing in a ferry from Governor's Island
to lower Manhattan one late afternoon.


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