Who of you on the JWD grew up in a small town? Take us back to one small event in your childhood that you remember.......this may just be a tactile sensation, like the smell of hay or pines or may be something as simple as the feeling of hot, dry dust underfoot........ For me, I remember the hardness of the soil in upstate New York. There was alot of clay in it, and I even made a little cup and saucer one day, just sitting out back of my grandparent's home...........another quick snapshot in my brain: a flower.........don't know it's name, on a stalk as tall as myself, and with a BRIGHT BLUE flower, like a daisy at the end of it..........
Small town USA..............
by Sunnygal41 18 Replies latest jw experiences
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new light
Our back yard was very rocky and those rocks were covered with moss. I remember breathing that earthy smell deeply on the first warm day of spring, as a distant steam engine whistled and chuffed. ***daydreams for a minute***
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Xena
I didn't grow up in small town USA as my dad was military till I was 11 and we moved around a lot...but we retired to a rural area outside Austin...
we had horses....I remember the warm earthy smell of them. And acres of bluebonnets in our back yard...like an ocean of bright blue...long lazy summer days on the back porch swing sipping sweet tea and idly chatting with my mom...the smell of my mom's peach cobbler fresh from the oven, made with peaches from our back yard...
Good memories
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professor
I remember working territory cards that covered vast country areas. My feet were always frozen in the winter and we couldn't wait for 10:30 coffee break.
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Black Sheep
I have just been back to where I grew up. Not a small town, a small village, and not in the US.
It had been devastated by tourism and three cyclones, I was there for one of them.
It was nice to feel the reef beneath my feet again after 40 years away, in a place that the tourists wouldn't even know about, but it did bring back some unsavoury memories about my cultish upbringing.
All of my friends had moved on or died, mostly died. That makes me feel old. At least my potty father's balmy geddom didn't gettem.
Chris
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Sunnygal41
oooh, pictures!!! I love pictures! beautiful, Black Sheep!!!
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Black Sheep
I like people who like photos.
Here's one from the small town I live in now.
It takes about 20 minutes to get from home to where I took the photo of this killer whale. One of a pod of about 10 that had come into the harbour hunting for stingrays.
Chris
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franklin J
...the warmth of a summers day on the beach; the lapping of water at the shore; the smell of salt water and the distant droning of a motor boat engine...
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Black Sheep
A photo taken last weekend from the hills that form the backdrop for Hobbiton in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings.
A ponga frond is hiding my house.
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Doubtfully Yours
Awesome pictures!
Thanks!
DY
