Freckles

Yesterday, we had a light rain at night and by noon, we had blue skies and perfect Simpsons clouds. The rain is back tonight. And tonight on the T.V. show, "Jeopardy", the city of San Diego was one of the categories. I got all the answers right!

I seem to be in an observant, contemplative mode today.

Walking back from our breakfast today, Don was about to cross the street in the middle of the block and I cautioned him to not "jaywalk." Jaywalk? It seemed an odd word to me that I could not trace back etymologically. The dictionary said that the 'jay' part of the word referred to a silly person in the early 20th century. Hmm. Guess it is silly to walk across the street without the benefit of the traffic signal.

Oh, and as for the freckles... this morning when I woke up I remembered that I used to have bunches of freckles as a young girl. In fact, one of my first head shot photo sessions for my commercial composite, the photographer had to touch-up and remove most of my freckles because it made me look too country bumpkin. Then I remembered that my mother used to have billions of freckles all over her body and face. When I was really little and would sit in her lap, I would play my version of connect the dots. As I was growing up, it used to embarrass me because she had so many freckles-it made her look different. Read that different as...odd.
Over the years, I neglected to notice that her millions of freckles had disappeared as had my splash of spots.

Wonder what other things have changed over time that I haven't even noticed?

Where have all the freckles gone?