more of the past
almost a year ago, i redesigned my bedroom. it had awful mauve wallpaper, terrible grey carpet, and was just ugly. i took down the wallpaper, ripped up the carpet (to find lovely hardwood floors beneath), and repainted and finished the walls with a faux fresco look. so my room is really a sunny, orangey color. at that point in the redecorating process, however, i ran out of steam. i did buy black frames with white mats and hung them around the room, but have been planning for over a year to get some great black and white photos to put in the frames. i am finally on my way to accomplishing this! i took some old pictures from my mom’s side of the family, scanned them in, and am having prints of various sizes made.
here’s one of my grandmother and her sisters that i love:
and here’s one of my great-great grandfather, logging for the railroads in british columbia in the 1890’s: 
April 13th, 2004 at 2:35 pm
thats cool about the floors.. werent you just hoping when you started that there would be hardwoods underneath?..
the pictures as I have already said are really cool… I love old family pictures like that..
April 13th, 2004 at 2:39 pm
trey, i actually figured they might be hardwood–i had done the same thing downstairs in the living and dining rooms. but the wood upstairs is even more beautiful.
April 14th, 2004 at 11:36 am
those pictures are really cool… and hard wood floors rock! although, i have none so this also makes me sad.
April 14th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
don’t be sad, joe. you can come visit my hardwood floors anytime. like, say, for a patty griffin concert or something.
April 14th, 2004 at 4:27 pm
I hate you both
forever…
:’(
thats a tear if you cant tell…
April 17th, 2004 at 10:35 pm
OK, I SWEAR I saw that logging picture in a restaurant I ate at in Oregon last week called Camp 18… hmm…