Lighting a candle for my father on World Book Day, which would have been his 91st birthday
#22 -- World Book Day -- 116 Pictures in 2016
Such an apt day for remembering my Papa's birthday, as he so loved to read. Some of my earliest memories are of the delight in his voice when he read aloud to us. He loved the Pooh stories (& had particular affection for Eeyore & Roo), but loved even more the rhymes in When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six. He could not read the fence painting scene in Tom Sawyer without laughing so hard that he cried.
So here's an assortment of his books that came to me, some of them touching on his career as a volcanologist, in a few of the various places where he worked. Also, showing his great interest in birds & all natural phenomena. And a bit of literature, too -- the O. Henry volume was a gift on his 19th birthday. How fascinating I found those red volumes when I was a child -- they pulled me into mysteries of nuances & intonations & adult things I couldn't entirely understand, but persevered in exploring, losing myself in the magic of books.
Lighting a candle for my father on World Book Day, which would have been his 91st birthday
#22 -- World Book Day -- 116 Pictures in 2016
Such an apt day for remembering my Papa's birthday, as he so loved to read. Some of my earliest memories are of the delight in his voice when he read aloud to us. He loved the Pooh stories (& had particular affection for Eeyore & Roo), but loved even more the rhymes in When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six. He could not read the fence painting scene in Tom Sawyer without laughing so hard that he cried.
So here's an assortment of his books that came to me, some of them touching on his career as a volcanologist, in a few of the various places where he worked. Also, showing his great interest in birds & all natural phenomena. And a bit of literature, too -- the O. Henry volume was a gift on his 19th birthday. How fascinating I found those red volumes when I was a child -- they pulled me into mysteries of nuances & intonations & adult things I couldn't entirely understand, but persevered in exploring, losing myself in the magic of books.