Faded Memories
by Ola Allen
Title
Faded Memories
Artist
Ola Allen
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
While I was admiring the flowers at Louis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Virginia, I saw an elderly woman stopped by this bench. She reached out and gently caressed the back of it with her hand and told her granddaughter that she and her granddaddy use to love to visit the gardens. I was not eavesdropping; I was just in earshot of her conversation. Last night as I processed this image, I thought of the old woman and how she had looked so lovingly at the bench.
This is an excerpt from my soon to be published book of prose and poetry...In the "Autumn of Our Lives".
There it was-the white wooden bench where she and her lovely gentleman had sat and ate ice cream cones and made plans to always love each other and to grow old together. Now, there she stood trying to remember that time and that day and the face of her gentleman.
Her memories slowly swirled like fuzzy cotton candy before her eyes. They were not quite as vivid as she had hoped, but she saw faint glimpses of her younger self with her fine man dressed in his colorful shirt and wearing his favorite cap. Back back then...she smiled at him coyly sitting there in her pink cotton floral dress.
He had eyes for her and she had eyes only for him. A lifetime ago, they had sat on that bench eating ice cream cones on a summers day.
She smiled.. touching the arm of the old wooden bench as her memories slowly faded like vanishing evening light. But, it was that bench-those bright Black Eyed Susies and that gentle breeze that brought back fleeting remembrances of treasured times with her beau on that park seat.
A gentle breeze touched her cheek tenderly and caring....like his strong hands.
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July 31st, 2014
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