A Day In The Life

The photo challenge asks: which of your images you would like to see gracing the cover of a favorite book, music album, or magazine.

Many years ago I started compiling family recipes and photos of family gatherings and old handwritten recipes with the idea I would crate a cookbook to be shared with my family. As many of my projects begin with he best intentions, they never actually come to fruition. Such was the case with my self-published cookbook. I was gung ho at the beginning, typing up many recipes, writing copy, getting photos together of the faces that went with the recipes, scanning in photos from Thanksgivings gone by. My folder grew and grew but then lay forgotten, until I saw the Weekly Photo Challenge prompt and remembered my idea of long ago. It is almost ten years since I had this idea, and I have forgotten what I intended to call my book. I do remember I wanted to use a set table for the cover, as the collection of recipes would also be a recollection of the family gatherings over the years, a family history with recipes to go along. Now that my memory has been jogged I may set upon it again, though I question how many family members really might be interested in it. I am always trying to capture some glimpse of the past, of the memories I have, but are not necessarily shared by others. It is the nostalgic part of me, the person who likes to look back and remember. To share the proof that those times and people existed. Maybe I will just do it for myself.