I Must Remember This

Books By Patti Liszkay
​Available On Amazon

​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
​Available on Amazon.

​I MUST REMEMBER THIS

     I think most of us on the amateur side of photography choose to snap the pictures we snap not so much from the desire to capture an image as from the desire capture a memory.  
​     Among the memories I wanted to capture during this past visit to California was how unusually clear the Los Angeles sky was, so clear that one was able to see the mountains off in the distance from the second floor of the house,

...or over the rooftops while walking down one street,

​...or off on the horizon while walking down another.

      There's the memory of how pretty the golden light from the setting sun was in The Commons park in Playa Vista the second time we visited there, this time for an evening picnic, 

...and how magical the scene was when the park lights came on,

...and illuminated the palm trees.

     And then there was the magical glow of the sky and the lights early one evening when we were driving on our way to or from somewhere. 

       There was the time we discovered that chocolate Magic Shell  works very well not only on ice cream but also on fruit from the fridge.

      There was the day Tom and I went to the Manhattan Beach Library and were charmed by the jelly fish sculptures hanging from the sky-lit ceilings,

...and the view of the sea from the glass walls.

      And there was my evergreen capacity to be charmed by the view of the sea from the street.

       There's the memory of my grand daughters' boundless fascination with their Lego world, the table where they can so often be found building, playing,

...and not infrequently eating.

     Oh, the places we go,

...and the pictures we take,

...and the memories we make.