Saratoga

This weekend was our "Saratoga weekend". We changed our routine this time and went to the town of "Ballston Spa" instead of Saratoga Springs. We (my sister Toni and sister-in-law Vicki) are trying desperately to hold on to the past. We can't. Nothing is the same. Over lunch we talked about starting fresh. It helped that we were in a new place but It just isn't the same. I don't know how to do it, how to start over. We are going through the motions but everything has changed. We've changed too. I'm not sure if we'll do Saratoga again. It hurts too much.



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The Girls

Last Friday afternoon I sat down for a little rest. It was hot and I was tired so I checked out what was on TV. Browsing the channels, I saw one of my movies listed. There it was, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", starting in 15 minutes. I've seen this movie many times and was excited to watch it again. But this time I felt like I was watching a new version of it because there were things that I didn't remember. Then there's the music! Haunting!! I can still hear it in my head. Fast forward to Saturday. My friend Deanne is back from Florida for a visit and we went out to some tag sales. It was at one of the sales that I found the picture. As soon as I saw it I thought of the girls at the Appleyard School. (If you're not familiar with the movie, the Appleyard School is in Australia and that's where the movie starts.) My imagination was running wild thinking about how I could use the picture for a card and somehow tie in the movie. But when I turned the picture over, I saw that the girls' names were listed on the back. Now there was a new meaning to the photo, something more personal, and I thought about them differently! This all happened because of the movie. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend it.  It's kind of creepy.....but in a beautiful way.