The Festivities

I hope everybody had a delightful Christmas and all that. I still feel great excitement and am prone to irrational joyous emotions at this time of year even though I've managed to suppress it a little since the days of my early childhood when things were generally out of control. We went around to my aunt and uncle's place and a lot of old photos were dug up including this early Christmas. Although it seems that they're poor tree is a little bit overwhelmed. I am personally very disapproving of fake trees I should add, a fake tree doesn't even come close to the loveliness of a real tree!

A Day In Wonderland

The Mad Hatter

The lovely birthday girl as Alice

On Sunday afternoon I fell down the rabbit-hole to find myself at a most delightful tea party. Naturally, it was a costume party so I was the white queen. I borrowed a past ballet costume from the 'white rabbit'. There was croquet played in a way we will refer to as 'stylistic', mountains of food and towers of tea cups...which lasted a good few minutes before being knocked over...replaced, then sent tumbling again. In short, a recipe for a wonderful day!

Family Photo Album : III

I always thought this quite beautiful photography, there's so much life in this little picture you could easily imagine being there. My grandmother is the lady wearing the dark coat standing next to the bride and one of the little flower girls is my mother's older sister, Francis and the other her cousin. But such a joyous image can resonate a lot of other emotions; it really strikes me to see family assembled like this long ago when I think of what's become of all those people. The blushing bride is my great aunt, who I know was called Lucy, but died before I was born, another great aunt, Irene, can be seen behind my grandmother showering the bride in confetti, she now suffers from dementia and of course my much loved grandmother who passed away when I was in grade four.