DescriptionI am not one to keep lots of trinkets and tsotchkies but these two things are special. (2373937723).jpg
English: I am not one to keep lots of trinkets and tsotchkies but these two things are special.
The Polaroid camera belonged to my grandmother; I have a few old photos somewhere she took with them at the Grand Canyon in the 1960s?? She gave it to me when I was working in a camera store in the 1980s and I managed to get some film for it. You had to work hard (and pay good $$) for a snapshot. There was the composition and then anticipation as you counted to peel the emulsion off... invariably being disappointed or totally surprised at the result. It reminds me that photography can be much more than snapping a thousand digital pictures.
The little metal truck was a toy I played with at the beach as a kid in Ocean City, MD. I forget even when my Mom dug it out of her storage and sent it to me in Arizona. Can you believe there was a time when toys were not plastic, but heavy metal with rust (yes and sharp edges!). I also had those big yellow toy trucks of equal stature. I can just look at the truck and recall the pure freedom of being a kid in a giant sandbox (the beach) which was my palette of play, imagination.
This was a welcome diversion to float back down memory avenue and keep me from more mundane tasks.
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