Tag: photos

• Anemonia Keeps Me Awake

  Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ~~Richter [The Berlew Family Reunion. Orange, PA. September 6, 1926. Photo: Egan Family Archives.] I don’t think it rained that day. There are no clouds in the sky. I should know. I’ve crawled inside this photo more than once over the years. One…

  patrickjegan

  March 19, 2024

  Childhood, death, Everyday Events, Family, grandparents, Grandson, History, Holding onto the Past, Home, Love, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Susquehanna River

  #familyreunions, #pennslyvania, #pennslyvaniafamilyreunions, family, Familyreunions, life, memories, photography, photos

• John Tumbledown’s House

  I pushed the button on the camera and heard the shutter snap.  I captured my son midway through his pirouette in the field, in the field in front of the old farmhouse. Something caught my eye just as the mirror flipped up in the camera.  Something in the farmhouse. I lowered the Pentax slowly from…

  patrickjegan

  August 22, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Everyday Events, Fables & Folklore, Family, Ghost Story, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories

  abandoned farmhouses, autumn, father, fear, old fields, photos, son, uneasy feelings