Blog Response #11

#11____Memory of a Place: Try to imagine a place from your past. Do you have pictures of this place? Describe this place as you remember it. What might a photograph look like of this place if you were to go back and photograph it? What would it look like in the past? What would it look like to you today? Where are you standing in this place? What other items are in this place? What colors do you see? Are there other people or are you alone? Make a “written photograph” of this place using words/description.

The first image that comes to mind is that of the backyard of my parents' home. There was a huge swingset that my father built and many trees. Underneath the swingset the grass was warn away into dust piles. There was a large expanse of grass that was surrounded by a forest creating a kind of semi circle. I do not have a picture of the location, but I can see it clearly now without a photograph.

I know what this place looks like today - My parents still live in the home. The back yard is completely changed now. The colors are still vivid and most of the trees surrounding the backyard are largely the same. There are "waves" of dirt and landscaping now, which give the scene a lot more texture. There is a variety of colors ranging from green to brown. Its beautiful now, as it was then.