I have a thing for...

For pictures.

especially vintage pictures

even more so,
mother and baby

vintage pictures

A mother's arms

are made of

tenderness

and

children sleep soundly in them.

-- Victor Hugo
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I've been collecting these

for a long time

I just found this one last weekend

on our anniversary date.

Isn't it gorgeous?

with just the perfectly shabby frame?

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This one is my all-time favorite

with its too-sweet verse.

Her Gift

So wee a gift,-yet wealth

of many lands

Could never buy it in

the richest marts!

So frail a gift-and yet

those baby hands

Take mighty hold upon

two human hearts!

Burges Johnson
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How about this one?

What story does it tell you?
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I have most of my collection here

on my stairway wall and upstairs landing.
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Some mothers are kissing mothers

and some are scolding mothers,

but it is love just the same,

and most mothers kiss and scold together.

-- Pearl S. Buck