Exposure: Week Six

 
Weekly Exposure

Challenge #6:

A picture of one of your favorite memories.

What an exercise it is to sift through the vast supply of memories for favorites! Oh, I have plenty, but most of them were not captured with a camera. Imagine that!

• my climbing tree, place of retreat and recreation • misty moonlit lampposts and fallen pears lining the brick path on honeymoon night • bicycle riding with abandon • bundled up in bed with my mom on a literally freezing college night • speechless tourist under a gorgeous, marbled sky • six very different birthing experiences • laughing over old letters with siblings • etc • etc • etc •

Yes, I turned my mind loose to receive the random collection of memories, and I smiled at how readily they reappeared.

I thought I had settled on an idea for this week's challenge, but I received an email from a dear friend that changed my direction altogether. I have not found the picture that I wanted most, so a couple of subs will have to suffice.

Gary. London bartender. Impromptu birthday tour guide. 
Memory maker. Friend.

(I just learned that he is very sick, so he's going to be my challenge choice this week.) ;-(

My days in London with him and with our friend, Sandy, were filled with favorite memories, indeed. His three trips to the US, including one for my wedding, yielded even more for fodder for reminiscing.

A couple of shots of the trio in London until I can find my favorite:

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

~Beethoven

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 

~John Leonard

Some friends come and go like a season. Others are arranged in our lives for good reason.

~Sharita Gadison

Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.  

~Kellie O'Connor

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~Diana Cortes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. 

~Sarah Orne Jewett

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious 

as to have friends at a distance; 

they make the latitudes and longitudes.
 ~Henry David Thoreau

~End Quote