Texture Tuesday Jan 27

Today would have been my Mom's 78 birthday. I made this to honor her.

Captivated Visions, Artified template. Painted art, mine.

In fact today I decided to wear one of her sweaters and a piece of costume jewelry that was hers. Can't believe she's been gone more than 30 years now. 

It's Texture Tuesday at Kim's...

Kim's preset kk_barelycolor with some added haze. I've really gotten on the haze bandwagon lately. I spent the past 48 hours processing photos from a family shoot this weekend and decided to play catch up from December's family photos too. I did quite a few with haze and I LOVE them. (More about that later.)

Two layers of kk_epic texture, linear burn and soft light both at 68% opacity. Word Art mine. (Words of Love in store) Can you relate to this one?

Mom

January 27th. . .

I moved a thousand miles south a couple decades ago. 

I was in my early 20s. Because of the distance I was lucky to get home once a year. 

Five years later my mom  died from injuries as the result of a very tragic car accident. 

I'm thinking about her friends. 

I see their smiling faces. A deep love in their eyes. Connections that cannot be broken. 

Of shared experiences with their children. Their husbands. Their community. And especially fishing.

I don't always get to see these women when I come home. But when I do it brings a clenching to my heart. Overwhelming emotions that are hard to control. It's like the funeral was just last week instead of 30 years ago. Even now as I picture their faces, my throat closes up and my eyes fill with tears. I picture myself as a little girl and them having their arms wrapped around me as I cry. They cry too. 

In honor of my mom whose birthday is today. She would have been 77. I look at her sisters and try to picture what she would look like now. I imagine what our conversation topics might be. What type of art she might be doing or if she would have established an art related business. . . thoughts. . . imaginings. . .