Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland The second to last photograph

The second to last photograph of a pile of blocks shows some more of the other plain ones--again

While absolutely poised to serve again as a stool

I find this second grader's drawing from 1945 really pretty touching--I'd guess created while his father was on leave from WWII

Craquelure

Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland The second to last photographThe date at the bottom of this color Kodak print is Feb 69, with its presence I think enhancing the poignance of what already feels like a pretty poignant photo. A launch and trail of white smoke vertically across a blue sky, which I find hard to look at without imagining a crash. Of a period filled with hope and despair, optimism about the future and unthinkable losses. Blue above but red on the horizon. And looks a bit like a bolt of lightening at