The theme for Flickr Friday this last week was "Stacked". On Friday we had some unsettled weather and the clouds got dramatic. Really good timing. Below is the picture I posted. It's a good picture. It certainly fits the concept of "only post your best stuff" because this is about as good as I get. Some other folks thought it was OK as well because it went on to Flickr's Explore page which is the sort of their front page. A lot of other people viewed this photo, a couple of hundred stopped long enough to click the favorite star and a dozen or so took the time to drop a favorable comment. This happened one other time and I find it interesting and to be honest great that people from all around the globe see something I've done and like it well enough to say so.
The Grand Kids Humor Me. I read a post on Flickr about re-creating a photo from Flickr Commons as part of the thirteenth anniversary of that feature of Flickr. The commons is a collection of photos from public archives that are stored on Flickr and on public display. A list of pictures was suggested and one of them struck me as something in which I could find a personal connection. This picture is of two cousins and was taken in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. My mother's father was ten years old in 1918 and survived that horrendous event to live into his nineties. Our two grand sons are five and eleven now and are living through these difficult times the same way as most other children this age. I interrupted their usual video game play in order to take the photo below and they played along because they're good kids. So there they are at the beginning of their century, posing close to the way the two Florida boys were in 191...
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