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Girls Hockey Tournament

02.12.2019 by Barbara Grant //

Warning: do not try to focus on these pictures. It can’t be done; they are super blurry from zooming in to get closeups behind a plexiglass safety barrier. 

Girls Hockey
My first try using an app called FotoJet Collage Maker Light
(impatiently sticking together a hodgepodge of hockey “gestures”)

And there were other little girls out there skating besides #33, doing their best to protect the puck, assist and score. But she’s my granddaughter, the one my eyes followed throughout the game. 

Coach daddy's girl
Coach daddy’s girl

My favorite photo from this day immersed in the world of girls hockey is of Bella skating off the ice toward Coach Daddy who’s grinning from ear to ear 🙂

Categories // Limelights on my friends Tags // FotoJet Collage Maker Light, girls hockey, hockey moms, the world of kids hockey

Message in a Typewriter

12.27.2018 by Barbara Grant //

Recently I was rearranging some tables in my studio and noticed an old typewriter tucked underneath with boxes of supplies. I’d found this portable Royal Caravan at an estate sale for $7. When I first showed it to my young grandson a couple summers ago he went crazy over it, mesmerized by a keyboard that clunked with each punch of the key… and so slow…! It occupied him for hours just examining the mechanics of such an ancient tool. I had forgotten about it until I opened the case and found this message:

Translation: Helo Nana, how are you doing since I saw you last? I can,T wait to see you again! You are soo fun, and I love seeing you! I wish we could just live together. I think we should be neighbors! That would make our life sooo much easy er! We could get everything we want done I hope you have been having a great time without seeing me, and without myself seeing you, because of school. We have to find time to see each other again!

Someday he will be a grown man, busy with lots of responsibilities. I know that, so I’m cherishing our times together now.

Categories // Just felt like sharing :)

Color Me Poetry

11.27.2018 by Barbara Grant //

Blue Whale
Blue Whale*

Color Me Poetry (by Aldo, age 10)

There was a blue whale.
He was as hungry as the sky was for the water.
Soon he saw a red chili.
It was like fireworks (boom, boom) that went up into the sky.
Soon the blue whale got the chili and became purple like grapes and bumpy like a chameleon.

* Blue Whale 2018 watercolor painting by Barbara Grant was donated to today’s fundraiser for America Scores in Milwaukee 

Categories // Art for worthy causes

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