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| It used to glow in the dark. Wait...wait. It still does! |
I take pictures at the drop of a hat. And then some. So this morning, – instead of doing chores that need to be done – Karen caught me rummaging through the "numerous" photos occupying space on my cell phone. I had been busted....mesmerized by the photograph on the left above.
It was nostalgia at first sight, a photo snapped a few years ago while visiting sister Linetha in Oklahoma.
We were reminiscing about our days of yore, when I recalled a framed picture of a "vagabond duck" that used to grace her bedroom wall when we were kids.
"I still have it," she exclaimed.
"No!" I retorted in disbelief.
"After all these years?"
Within minutes she produced the object of my interest. It wasn't very big. It wasn't framed. It had faded a wee bit....and....horrors.....it wasn't glowing!" Nonetheless, I captured the above image of Linetha with her duck friend.
Yep, as a kid, I was enamored with this vagabond duck, apparently running away from home, or maybe just exploring new places. And perhaps most intriguing for me (when I was a kid....and maybe still) was that this wandering waterfowl had glowed in the dark.
Maybe my early exposure to Linetha's vagabond duck explains why Karen and I have lived in a gazillion places over the past half century or so.
But my excitement over seeing this long-lost "friend" really was tempered by the fact that it didn't seem to glow anymore. After all, that was what had really intrigued me as a kid. I'm not sure what kind of goop (read that "chemically-treated goop") was applied to it to make it glow, but it did.
Methinks that goop has lost it punch, just like the rest of us.
But with a little help from Photoshop, I wanted to let my dear sister know that her Vagabond Duck still shines!
But with a little help from Photoshop, I wanted to let my dear sister know that her Vagabond Duck still shines!
