Three – Page 4 – Black and White

Breakfast

three people eating — the young man stayed for breakfast and returned often in the decades following.

RIC road trip

EG and the strange dolls
Her grandmother had strange dolls

Hull Street outlet — The cultural offerings in Richmond were diverse.

Va Museum — The Virginia Museum a favorite venue of 4 year olds.

country mice

A blessing

to return to home country

three

three dogs — Celeste, Matilda, Arthur

handset

3 kids and a corded phone — The handset was sculpted to work with human proportions. Mouth, ear, neck, shoulder. Called a handset but hands weren’t required to hold it. Ergonomic.

September’s children

William, Edith, Emma — three consecutive days in September 171 years apart

2 children on a desk — Borderline simultaneous, arriving one brilliant morning just past midnight.

flag and porch — Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor good job, farewell

the natural world intervenes

slabtown herd — looking up from the phone

naturalized Canada geese — animal life.

welcoming committee

airport security moving with deliberate speed — three on foot, one on Segway

Segue is a verb that means “to move without stopping from one topic, song, etc., to another.” Segway, on the other hand, is a trademarked name for an electric transportation device. Most of the most commonly confused words in English are old pairs: affect and effect, or discrete and discreet.

Three

Orange ,Virginia — three flags three birds one soldier

Route 360

farmhouse tree grain bins — Route 360, Virginia tidewater

Meleagris gallopavo

two turkeys and a concrete gull — In Tisbury the turkeys abound.