Perhaps a laugh

 

And changed a zillion diapers on your butt!

This didn't happen on my recent trips to Asheville through Swannanoa, but it is at the corner where everyone turns to get on I-40. Apparently the guy was at a gas pump and hit the accelerator rather than the brake pedal. No injuries reported...but you have to wonder how he got out!

Dry Falls, near Franklin NC. It's actually quite damp under the falls!

I was lucky enough to be alive when this happened, and lived within a hundred miles of it! Saw it on the news with the traffic problems.

A week ago Friday was March 13...and here's Mr Rogers (no relation) talking about King Friday the 13th.

“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of your life, when something funny happens, when you make a mistake, or even (and perhaps especially) when bad things happen, it’s easier if you can laugh about yourself and the world.”

Source: Life Is Short And So Is This Book: Brief Thoughts On Making The Most Of Your Life by Ex-Microsoft general manager and writer, Peter Atkins on how to live life.

If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

Hildegard of Bingen Thanks to AC, must add this video! For all my fortunate Canadian friends! May you stay free of the (insert expletive here) threats from the Orange one, who we citizens of the USA deplore and wish to be rid of asap!

Swimsuits

 The swim suits!

What a fun way to walk on water!

Serious swimmers, a team of high school students at a meet. My granddaughter is in the black facing us on the right, from about 5 years ago.

A few years ago my family went from OH to FL for Christmas, where they found more freezing weather. Here one granddaughter smiles, while her sister in background wears pajama bottoms I think to keep warm, and dad, Russ, looks on by the Gulf of Mexico.

Finally getting to the sepia photos. Here my husband in the 60s rigs our little boat, while Russ (whose birthday is tomorrow) wears a orange lifejacket, and I'm in my favorite yellow (no polkadots) two piece suit.  An unknown little girl photo bombed the shot in the foreground. It's possible that my oldest son is floating around in the direction I'm looking, maybe wearing a white floatation thing. The water was really shallow!

Yep, someone captured me in my yellow swim suit floating around.  No my hair isn't that yellow stuff, but it's a little swim cap with fake hair! I'm not posting my latest swim suit where I definitely resembled an Easter egg.

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Today's quote:

Our essence is an expression of fulfillment, and the universe wants to satisfy our needs and desires.

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Sharing with Sepia Saturday!

Alan Burnett invites others to join our free fun site...

It's the middle of summer (well, it is in the Northern Hemisphere) and here on Sepia Saturday we are paddling in the seas of nostalgia. To protect our bodies from the sun we are hiding in the shade of countless memories, represented by a host of old photographs. Join us by sharing an old photograph or two either on themes (bathing suits, beaches, sand) or off theme (giant vegetables, top hats, or whatever you want) on or around Saturday 16th August 2025 and add a link to the list (on the site).

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And a very happy birthday wish to my second son, Russ. I celebrate virtually your life which has enriched so many!

Camping in St. Mary's GA with Tai (on left) and Russ when he was in college. We went to Cumberland Island GA for the next day.

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Today's quote:

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 Aug 1920-2012)

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See Open Yesterday's Pages for details of anniversary of Woodstock!

Ladies fashions plus...

 1920 styles
 

Sepia Saturday shows a department store with some ladieswear, as well as hats.

Riding an electric scooter around 1910

Madame Decourcelle was the first licensed taxi driver...Perhaps in France because the description is in French. No date given.

On the Bois de Boulogne, a stylish woman walking her pooch.

Woodstock NY, 1969! OK, I notice this isn't a lady. But the fashion is so ...whatever!

Today's quote:

“I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”

Albert Einstein