For tonight. This past Fall I took a photo course titled "Storytelling with Images" . It was a challenge for sure. I think we do want our images to tell a story and take most of them with that in mind. We were challenged to answer the same questions a journalist would set out to answer (Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?). This image asks "What is that pencil doing on that surface?" "What significance is there, if any, in the words on the pencil? "Where did the pencil come from?" "Whose pencil is it?" How are the pencil and the surface used?" The pencil is on a work table, it belongs to the grandfather of a young woman who was the first multi organ transplant 6 years ago (I think 6) at Boston Childrens Hospital - all of her abdominal organs (including intestines and esophagus) were removed and she received new ones in her battle against an aggressive childhood cancer. This young lady is a happy, well adjusted young woman in her second year of high school - something the dr's never anticipated. She is the longest living, thriving multi organ transplant recipient. She made medical and surgical history and from her, doctors learned many things which, in turn, have helped others. What's the work table for - you'll see in another post.

Well there has been another week of great challenges. Thanks to Patography and lnightng we’ve sung some songs and made some decorations to sing to them and each other.

And that brings us all back together here for another Free Sunday. Hope you’ll join in and share any leftovers or something new you’ve learned getting ready for any of our future challenges.

I mention “more about those three Christmas trees in one of my posts to Hand Made challenge and didn’t get it posted so I’ll use it to kick off this Free Sunday. Some years after my mother-in-law passed we still had a rather large collection of her costume jewelry. Dee saw something in a catalog or on line somewhere, I forget where. Anyway we decided we could make our own with all the stuff in that collection. We got some foam cones from a craft store some gold and silver spray paint and some premade wooden bases to mount the cones on. Then I set up a work station in the garage to disassemble a lot of clamp on ear rings and other pieces that needed to be broken down for use as a decoration. Finally got to work with a hot glue gun and Dee’s direction where to put stuff on the three gold trees. Gave the three silver cones to our daughter to decorate with stuff she had collected.