Monday, May 19, 2008

Falling off My Grampa's Lap: a photograph

Our whole family is wearing blue. Blue is my favorite color and my grandmother's favorite color, but we always called her Gram. Gram and Grampa's house was a magical place for me when I was young. It still is, come to think of it. And part of that magic is this old. family portrait hanging on the living room wall. We are all wearing blue jeans and blue shirts. The kids also have blue sweaters. We are out behind my grandparents' house by the orange trees and the fig tree that I always loved to climb. Some of the adults are on chairs and stools. My Mom is standing in the back row holding my little sister and laughing. My Mom has never looked bad in a picture in her life; she says that it is from practice smiling as a high school pom-pom captain. My Grampa does not have that much lap in this picture (he has lost a lot of weight since then) and I can't seem to stay up on it, so I'm falling off.

FACTS: Stools, chairs, orange trees, family members, blue shirts.

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