Photo Potpourri

 
Photos of all kinds are included in this weeks Friday Foto Friends.
 The first one is a couple of Penguins who like to hang around and guard my books.
Very useful little guys.
Danielle Steele's 44 Charles Street is a favorite of mine that I have read and re-read several times. The Island by Elin Hildebrand is also nice reading. It is about summer and finding and re-finding romance on Tuckernuck Island in Massachusetts.
The flower covered book is an old English book from a high school in Brooklyn, NY from the 1940's. I use it for grammar correction in posts, etc.

I broke the top of my coffee grinder from Holland.
I love Delft from the Netherlands.  My Aunt Johanna was born in the Netherlands and my love of blue and white and all things Delft comes from her.
I put delft handles on my kitchen cabinets because I love it so much.
I used to love staying with her at her house, which I thought was the most beautiful home in the world. I find myself trying to copy her in so many ways.
Each year she went back to the Netherlands on the  Holland America line's SS Rotterdam. She loved sailing the Atlantic. She would bring me home the menu from the cruise.
 I loved that.
Each year she brought home Delft items.Once I got a sterling bracelet with a little Delft wooden shoe on it and a windmill. I don't know what became of it sadly.

I love my coffee grinder too and hope I can find another top so the coffee beans stay fresh.

More Delft in the kitchen

Blue and white handles make me happy.

Next is a shot of New York  City on the way home on the boat in spring time .
We are pretty equidistant from NYC and Philly. NYC is quicker by boat though.
My oldest daughter commutes to NY daily for her job.
 Here in New Jersey we just call New York City  "the city". Everyone knows where you are going and what you mean when you say you are going into the city for the day.
If you go to Philadelphia to shop you say, "Philly".

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 And the Famous Anonymous Kid squinting in the bright NY sunshine.

I was trying to see if my hair was getting white streaks in the back since my hair gets  some silvery white hair, not gray and I couldn't tell properly with the mirror. The Famous Anonymous suggested I try a selfie.  (We  are very bad and sometimes text back and forth while she is at school)
I sat on the edge of the sink and well... got a bad partial photo of my head with distorted color but a pretty good shot of my little bottom in the mirror in the upper half of the photo.
Also in the shot is my Clifford the Big Red Dog cup. Used to be the Famous' cup but, I inherited it when she got too old for it. She did,  but I didn't. Ask anyone who knows me.. I am really 10.
 I thought having taken a rear end selfie was pretty funny... so I included it.
As the Famous Anonymous said, "Only you can take a photo of your head and get your butt too."
Yeah, pretty much.

After many tries, I got a picture but, you can't tell really.
So I went to the Beauty Store and they told me to let them be white because it really is platinum and adds nicely to the blonde.  So, I will :).

 You can sort of see one thick chunk of it in the center of the hair, and there are a few chunks like that. It was a waste of time.

The only thing I got was some exercise while doing gymnastics to take the photo

 Here is the bay, yet again.  The sharp dark line in the distance is the barrier island.
It is also part of my town and our town's ocean beaches are over on that side.

And a blast from this summer past.   I took it in August and, I think I have shown it before, but I like the  yellow sky so here it is again.

That's it for this week.
Join in Friday Foto Friends at Debbie's. Its a lot of fun and there are some beautiful photos to see  and I promise,  most of them NEVER include the back of someone's head or their behind either..so take a look!