Objects Vol. 3

AA296 Imagination.

On the upper right is a lemon cucumber. I had never eaten one. They're a beautiful color inside and delicious!

The Swiss knife was a Christmas gift to me in 1976. I keep it in my car. Bottom, my grandmother's apple-paring knife when they were on their mountain homestead. It appears to have later become a general around-the-place tool used by her sons.

Faintly cucumber with a citrus kick.

Tastes like lemon-lime with a cucumber scent.

1920s or 30s, Minnesota or South Dakota. Not the architect by the same name. The story whispered among the family was that his wife, May, had been a showgirl, perhaps even a prostitute, when he met her in Minneapolis after WWI. She wore makeup, smoked and had beautiful flapper dresses made of velvet and decorated with beads and rhinestones. Several times per year she sent her elegant hand-me-downs to her husband's nieces on the South Dakota ranch. One of them was my mother. I have one of the dresses. It's deep blue velvet with beaded bodice.

Do you trust what you see?

My vision began to decline about two years ago, with nerve damage caused by glaucoma. I have two kinds of eye drops that have kept me fairly stable, but I miss my old vision..

AA300 Music.