HAPPY BIRTHDAY
To my daughter who is way older than I want her to be!
"Nostalgia"
Funny how time gets you by the shorts without even noticing.
Not my daughter's birthday a but after second thought, maybe.
Just looking back at things that at the time, we take for granted. The image herein has nothing to do with family, but a lot to do with nostalgia. And that means family as well.
Defined by Webster as a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to, or of, some past period or irrecoverable condition.
This image was taken in Chestertown, MD. At the foot of High Street. Looking out at the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.
The nets are really a holding pen for the river creatures that the local watermen have caught and which are waiting for the buyer to come and take them to that great crab pot in the sky.
Commercial fishermen in the Chesapeake Bay are uniquely called "Watermen", because that's simple and is also where they choose to work.
This spot I have gazed upon hundreds, if not thousands, of times. Taken it for granted hundreds, if not thousands of time minus one. The minus one was this photograph made in an early morning fog with nary a ripple on the water.
I must admit that I did not think much about it at the time of "Click". But in retrospect it was a pretty meaningful sixtieth of a second moment in the course of mankind.
Happy Birthday, Heather!
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