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Holly Springs, MS
A test shot of Mom from last week. I'm still concentrating on work-related endeavors (from shooting family and maternity sessions, to post-processing my boss' newborn photographs), so my work has made a bit of a stylistic shift lately. Samples from my recent shoots coming soon.
Images I took of my parents last spring... dad always does what I ask, but for the first time my mom was totally into it. :)
hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend...
I came home to my Mom's first year death anniversary.
It felt so strange not to find Mommy's physical presence at home, not to see her sweet smile greeting me at the door, not to be warmly embraced by her, but her loving spirit was just about everywhere.
The yahrzeit is a time of remembering the dead by reciting the Kaddish, lighting a 24-hour candle, and remembering the person who has died.
www.myjewishlearning.com/life/Life_Events/Death_and_Mourn...
After the Kaddish & the memorial ceremony we had a buffet for all the participants at the prayers.
115 Pictures in 2015
#82 Nostalgia
Her selfie in the hallway mirror, obviously into her photography that day. She could draw anything, painting anything, weave, make baskets, sew, knit, do macrame, grow anything in the garden, and loved putting together jigsaw puzzles.
At first she would replace pieces missing from puzzles she bought at garage sales. She would draw the shape of the piece on thin cardboard, cut it out with an exacto, and hand paint the part of the image that was gone.
When she got bored with that, she started turning puzzles over and painting her own puzzles on the back!
She would copy Picasso, Miro, any famous painter that she liked, covers of the New Yorker and Vogue magazines, book illustrations, old family photos from the 1900', comic strip characters, and hand paint in all the colors.
Putting her jigsaw masterpieces together was one thing we did together when I visited her each Christmas. Several years ago, I noticed she had stopped making any art at all. She would ask me the same question over and over, every five minutes.
We found out she had developed Alzheimer's. She lived five more years gradually losing touch with herself, with speech, forgetting her past, and unable to recognize her own work. I know many of you have gone through this. It is unbearable to watch.
I have all her puzzles and drawings. I may post some pictures of them here. Her natural, self-taught skill as an artist I can only dream of having.
the Tiger mom-this is the smaller of the two babies she gave birth to 8 weeks early (the other one is just a few feet away)-he'll be two months old on Fri. which is also his due date-Mom basically lived in the hospital with them until they were released a week ago and they're all glad to be out now-Happy First Mother's Day to my daughter-in law!
Mom
Mom passed away exactly one week prior to my uploading this photo. Thankfully, her illness was brief, and passing was peaceful. In her younger days, my mom enjoyed painting as one of her many hobbies, and as I was telling Retail Retell (via flickrmail - thanks again for lending your ear), she graduated up from paint-by-numbers paint kits to free-hand paintings like the ones seen here. She was especially fond of the three crosses painting pictured on the right.
Due to the amount of work my family has ahead of us settling her estate, I've made the decision to suspend daily scheduled uploading to flickr for a while, and switch to a weekend only schedule in the near future, with possible uploads in between here and there. I still plan to continue on with my (same ole' :P) photo series in the near future - Spin Street, I-269, HDO Shell, and Wendy's photos were very close to being finished - and I do intend to finish them eventually. In addition, I have recent photos from the Whitehaven Sears liquidation, which will be closing by the end of January 2019. It's quite likely demands on my time will allow me uploading on weekends only for an extended period of time though. I also intend to keep my pro membership going as well, and keep up with all the latest retail news both local and elsewhere. Thanks everyone for your understanding :)