photos – Thoughts From The Passenger Seat

It’s been a few weeks since I was able to get to Sunday mass between an anticipated Mother’s Day breakfast that fell through because of my son and his wife being sick, followed by my own sickness, and then last week when I think I was just exhausted by a chronic cough – whew!

Up and out for 7:30 mass this morning and what fun to hear some of my old favorite songs because today is the Feast of the Holy Trinity. I spent 8 years at Holy Trinity School which is part of the Holy Trinity parish, which then became Most Holy Trinity, and now is part of the St. Benedict of Nursia community of 3 churches.

I enjoy mass and miss it when I’m not there. Today Father Lane (my favorite if we’re allowed favorites), talked about what is the Holy Trinity and how it ties into love, and how loved is in our DNA by being given life. It just really touched me and I left promising myself to react with love. I guess that means scrolling by those social media posts that really irk me!

So, with the spirit of love, I leave you with some photos of the sights around my yard and I hope you have a lovely day.

Daily writing prompt

Do you have any collections?

I don’t have collections in the true sense of the word like Beanie Babies, salt and pepper shakers, or baseball cards.

My collections are:

My vast amount of family photos dating back to the late 1800s, and early 1900s on both parents’ sides of the family. Many formal portraits including families, first communions, and wedding parties. Informal photos are in photo albums and labeled with dates and locations!

My mother’s postcard collection. She had a big album with all the cards categorized by location. I hung onto it and finally took them out of the album. Someday I will write some stories about some of them.

My yarn, knitting needles, and knitting books. I have baskets of yarn and a slew of knitting books! I kept the yarns by weight in file cabinet drawers until I repurposed the file cabinet for my ancestry work. I was going to get rid of a lot of the yarn but never got around to it. I guess it’s time to put the yarn away again before any moths get to it!

Do books count? I have a lot of those and I keep buying more!

But if you’re thinking my house must be filled to the rafters, you’d be wrong! All of my “collections” are in a very large room over our garage that serves as our workout room in two-thirds of the room and my “she-space” in the remaining part. We’re lucky to have such a wonderful space!

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