69 today! Now I know I often take lots of pictures which look very similar to each other and flickr the whole lot. I admit sometimes I do it just for fun now ;). But tonight I took about 50 photos in a row of my Dad with his birthday cake, some alone and some with Davies and Scarlett and when I looked back at them almost every one had captured something slightly different in his expression. I’ve not flickrd them all, just the ones which made me smile when I looked back at them, but in at least 2 I caught a glimpse of what he must have looked like at Davies’ age sat behind the flickering candles on birthday cakes of many years ago.
So Happy Birthday Dad, the most infuriating, challenging, loving, supportive, caring, steady, calming and comforting person I have had the priviledge to know, let alone be related to. 69 years is a whole lifetime to many, I hope you have many more years left but I saw in your eyes tonight a whole life time of memories of birthdays and years of the past – I’m pleased today was one of the happy ones.
Gosh I didn’t realise he was so….well, he doesn’t seem old!
That cake looked truely delicious!
Comment by Lucy — 07 August 2007 @ 7:04 pm