Picture share thread.

[poptart]

Picture share thread, I'll start.  This was my day.

 

Edited July 15, 2021 by poptart

[bluebell]

Edited July 16, 2021 by bluebell

[poptart]

22 hours ago, bluebell said:

That's amazing!  Where is it?

[bluebell]

8 minutes ago, poptart said:

That's amazing!  Where is it?

The great salt lake, out by the Spiral Jetty.  Last September.

[Rain]

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Rain said:

So pretty.

[SeekingUnderstanding]

[SeekingUnderstanding]

On 7/15/2021 at 5:04 PM, poptart said:

Picture share thread, I'll start.  This was my day.

 

Where is that from? Looks beautiful!

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

A typical sunset from my front porch high atop the ridge! 

[poptart]

16 hours ago, SeekingUnderstanding said:

Where is that from? Looks beautiful!

Mt Bierstadt, a Colorado 14er.

[InCognitus]

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Don’t know why, but I just love this picture! 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Bill “Papa” Lee

[Tacenda]

Edited July 22, 2021 by Tacenda

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

One of my favorite sunsets from high atop the ridge…it was from yesterday. 

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Edited July 23, 2021 by Bill “Papa” Lee

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

The day this beautiful young lady said yes, 45+ years ago. Our tiny beginnings, now number 19! 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Bill “Papa” Lee

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

My youngest daughter made me this map to cheer me up, as I spend so much of my time in my room. Oh, I love maps; a lot! She also gave me pins to note where I have been. To date that equals 33 States, and 12 countries, so far. At the lower right side of the map, lies another great love, my Scriptures, which I read, due to my love of reading, and lately because they bring comfort. My family also bought and placed 15 of my poems in this large picture holder, well only 14,  as the top middle reads, “Poems by Bill”. This was bought many years ago. My parents loved it so much, I put it in their house until they both passed away. My brother (one of them) thought I was just being vain. I read two poems, requested by my Mother at her funeral, and he became enraged (as he blew up on the phone afterward) that I would use her death to promote myself. I did not want to speak at her funeral, as I feared I would not get through it, and I didn’t get through the second poem, as I began sobbing. Thankfully, my sister set him straight. Anyway, I love this picture, because most of the things in it, were given to me by those I love, and those who love me. Also those whom I wish to be with for years to come, but this is, and always has been in the hands of God, as all things are. 

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Bill “Papa” Lee

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Another beautiful sunset, high atop the ridge. 

Edited July 26, 2021 by Bill “Papa” Lee

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

My Mother and my Adopted Father who made us his own, and gave us his name. The great Pastor and Fisherman whom became my Father, standing next to my beautiful Mother. I am the one peeking from behind the wall. This was Christmas 1962, I believe? 

[InCognitus]

3 hours ago, Bill “Papa” Lee said:

My Mother and my Adopted Father who made us his own, and gave us his name. The great Pastor and Fisherman whom became my Father, standing next to my beautiful Mother. I am the one peeking from behind the wall. This was Christmas 1962, I believe? 

They look happy.  And you are much shorter than I imagined you to be.

[bluebell]

[Tacenda]

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

One of the worst and best days of my life! It was the birth of my oldest granddaughter, Macy. In this very large birthing suite, and as I was about to get out, the doctor says, “Sorry Dad or Papa, you have to stay put”. So I told the doctor, “no, not happening, let me out”! My wife, son-in-law, and of course mother and daughter all had plans to remain, but certainly not me! My wife took this picture of me, huddling in the corner praying for deliverance. It was a wonderful day, but from that day on, I never went to the hospital until after the birth of the next 8 grandchildren. 

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

18 hours ago, Tacenda said:

Beautiful picture, with that blond hair she looks like my youngest 3yr old granddaughter. 

[Chum]

39 minutes ago, Bill “Papa” Lee said:

In this very large birthing suite, and as I was about to get out, the doctor says, “Sorry Dad or Papa, you have to stay put”. So I told the doctor, “no, not happening, let me out”!

I not only had to arrange all of my wife's births, I had to assist. 

I genuinely don't get the whole dad-cutting-the-cord thing, that midwifes are hung up on. Didn't do anything for me.

[Calm]

My husband did the cord for the first kid and thought the afterbirth looked cool. I declined a viewing. Told them just send it to the incinerator, thank you very much. His sister was the assisting nurse and the doctor had just delivered her first child the month before, so it was like a little party for the three of them.

The only thing I have ever cared to look at that came out of my own body are my children. Doesn’t bug me in the least for other people…I think I could even do dissection if I could handle the smell (smells extremely sensitive too), but I guess I like to pretend my body is essentially living marble, smooth and elegant and looking the same no matter where you cut.