Today, I’m participating in Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. The prompt I chose is:
4.) Instagram fun! Share a photo you took with Instagram this week and tell us what you love about it.
But I have a confession: I don’t “do” Instagram. At least, not yet. So, I’m substituting a photo I took this week with my cell phone in order to text it to my son, Marshall.
Yesterday I shared that Motor Man and I drove to Strasburg, Virginia on Sunday to meet my blogging friend, Pam, and her husband, Dave. On the way, we saw a sign for the town of Marshall, Virginia, but our route didn’t take us in that direction.
On our way home, however, we detoured so we could see Marshall, Virginia. And I texted this picture of the sign to my son, Marshall.
Now – for what I love about this picture. Obviously, I love seeing my son’s name on a sign. But visiting the town of Marshall also brought back a memory from his childhood.
During Marshall’s growing up years, a girl named Maggie lived across the street from us. She was just a few months older than Marshall, and the two of them played together after school almost every day. I don’t recall how we came to discover this (probably one rainy afternoon when I was looking for something to occupy their attention), but we found out that there are towns in Virginia named Marshall AND Maggie. And we all thought that was cool.
I’ve never been to the town of Maggie. But if I do, I’ll be texting Marshall a picture of the sign. Unless I’ve mastered Instagram by then.
these days of mine 