CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST! with (me!), sandra ttgp
original post 2007***
more good news! email dated july 20th, 2007:
congratulations! you've won second place in the pleasanton weekly's photo contest with your firehouse submission! we plan to run the pictures in the next issue and you will be contacted shortly regarding the prize and pickup. if you should have any questions, please give me a call.
emily atwood
staff writer
pleasanton weekly
#firehouseartcenter
i'm so delighted! when i read in the weekly the contest info... a call for pictures that capture the essence of pleasanton.. how could i resist? i just happen to have about eight hundred from this year alone. but i went easy on them, and only sent in about 50 i think..
and this one, from a series i took of jack and taryn at the old firehouse just behind lion's wayside park feels special.. "this old firehouse is going to be a beautiful theatre soon.. and maybe they'll perform mommy's plays one day and sell her art..
and maybe i'll write a play for you two.. "
so it holds memories and it holds hopes, but it's the way jack is holding his frosty from meadowlark dairy that melts me.
and this was really a great afternoon... checking out the firehouse from every angle, peeking through every dusty, dirty window we could reach. and where fire trucks used to occupy the floor, it was now mostly vacant and dusty, save a few folding chairs forming a semi-circle around an easel display which showcased the architectural designs of the future, firehouse art center.
i really can't wait.
and then in the back, between the firehouse and lions wayside park, just a wide open dirt, rock patch of land. and there taryn and jack took turns seeing who could throw rocks the farthest, and then we all stopped for a few mintues, when they i-spied a baby... what? ... mouse? possum? ... don't think we were ever sure.. but it was wiggling near a little dirt cave, this bran new little living creature, squirming to get out of the hot sun and back into the shade of its haven. and we just watched for a few moments lost in the miracle. wanting to get as close as possible without scaring or threatening
and then we moved on, to play in the big ditch behind the bandstand at the park. -hours, of free entertainment for the children. i sit and read or write, and they go exploring..
and i'm so conscious of how relaxed and free we are; roaming, playing, dreaming. and how time is the greatest marinade -making more flavorful and tender these simple moments beneath the sun and near the trees.
posted by SHE @ 8:53 PM
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p.s.
dear google/blogger..
who ever came up with the idea of setting things up so that blogs in progress are automatically saved and don't disappear when you accidentally click out (or get clicked out)
THANK YOU!
Congrats on getting second place with one of your pictures! I'll watch for it in the Weekly. And I can't wait to see one of your plays performed at the Firehouse Arts theater one day! :-)
thanks jim!
i've got big plans for that firehouse art center
...they just don't know it yet...
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