Sunday, November 9, 2008
Granny's pictures
I was sitting at a table with my grandmother and my Dad and I had this digital camera that my grandmother had given me. It wasn't a fancy digital camera, an older one really without an LCD screen for some reason, but it had an interchangeable lens I could use when I came over to her house she said which is truly something my grandmother would say with a gift in real life were she still alive. But sitting there at the table with her I framed a picture of both her and my Dad playing with the zoom feature on the camera and then my grandmother showed my Dad this piece of paper that someone had given her at church, something else very much like what she would do in real life. On the piece of paper was a picture of several photographs on her wall. The pictures were all of people from church, all people she loved dearly. The pictures were on a wall in her house, just the way I remembered it. She didn't actually have those photos up in real life but in the dream it was her wall the way I remembered it. My grandmother was always sharing stuff with my Dad like this. The piece of paper got passed around to me and I looked at it. The picture did the same thing DVDs claim to do (I haven't actually seen this but read somewhere that some DVDs have this special feature built in where you can see how the set looked as the particular scene was being shot, a sort of 360-degree panorama I guess), to see a 360-degree panorama of the scene while it was being shot. I looked at this picture and it had people in it that I go to church with now but it did that 360-degree panorama thing and that showed that my brother had taken the picture when he was in high school. His hair was just like when he was in high school, tucked up underneath his hat the way he wore it then. My brother had taken the picture of the pictures on my grandmother's wall. I woke up crying. I miss my grandmother.
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