corner view ≈ homeplace, almost alice ☻

i wasn't alice back then, no, no, and i don't on the whole feel like an alice now. but i do find this life is getting curiouser and curiouser. for knowing so much more than back then, and for knowing nothing at all. for wanting the same things as ever, and realising they are never a must.

each time i visit mum in her home, the place i grew up in, i bump into images of the past.

each door that creaks open reveals a long forgotten memento, not to regain, but to cherish.

each corner mum and i turn... well, new mystery seems to open up. [i'm leaving in the middle which character mum'd be playing in wonderland.]

but i do frabjously sing-song in my head, at anybody who's mean, 'off with your head', and i love to fudderwupp, anytime please. just to say. my inner sweet alice is rather far out than almost alice. ☻ owing it to our homeplace, i'm guessing. 
surprising theme homeplace was chosen by kristin, on jane's corner view, hosted by francesca

26 comments :

  1. fabulous post about life, perspectives, and growing ... "curiouser"! And all of it with a special theme banner!

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  2. beautiful!
    the images
    the story
    about growing up
    great post!!

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  3. Wonderful post, I like how it reads like a story :)

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  4. Reading it felt like falling through the hole, knowing how it is, the new perspective on old homeplaces. Loved it.

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  5. A great story teller you are. I miss going back to the home I grew up in. Thank goodness I still have the memories. Love your home too! xo

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  6. I want to see a picture of your mum, Kers! It is good the old homeplace is still in tact. Mine and in fact the whole town has changed dramatically in just the past 8yrs. We don't even recognize our hometown. In fact some of us old friends are gonna take a drive thru and just reminisce at what isn't there anymore!♥

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  7. loved to read your story and going through the pictures thereby! the whole life is wonderland! ;o)

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  8. Love the photos; were any of those Polaroids?

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  9. your words made me think of my own upbringing and made me remember.
    great words and nicely written.

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  10. what a tale ... and you even have the banner to go with it. great post :D

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  11. those sheep make me happy. as do you. (and i simply adore the idea of casting my mother and me as characters in alice in wonderland :)

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  12. Whimsical and delightful. You almost make Alice in Wonderland sound good, but I've always been a bit frightened of it. Hmmmm, huh?!
    I do love the header. :>)

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  13. "...for knowing so much more than back then, and for knowing nothing at all. for wanting the same things as ever and realising they are never a must"
    So true, thank you. must go find that book again...

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  14. Beautiful visions... Like Theresa said, all of the places we have lived are part of us. And there is more than that too.

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  15. Wonderful and true about things getting "curiouser"!

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  16. there's a whole novel in this post if you want to develop it. love.

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  17. I love your posts, always full of thoughts and images that tell a lot.

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  18. This was such a delicious post! I have had similar thoughts in that they are of childhood these days.

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  19. Fantastic CV! Beautiful images and beautiful words to describe them... Thank you!

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  20. which road should i take, asks alice.
    where do you want to go. xo

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  21. mooi,mooi,mooi..waar haal je toch al die schrijfsels vandaan? Zit dat allemaal in je hoofd?

    Ongelooflijk!

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  22. The photo of the sheep, lovely. Helena Bonham Carter really does a fabulous "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!", possibly my favorite.

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  23. What beautiful images and text ... together they create the feeling of stepping through into another world and other worlds in time, in fantasy, in fairytale!

    I was at my homeplace (Long Island New York) this weekend. While there I dreamed of a wild and whimsical dance in a field including someone riding/dancing on a sheep! So your post felt like it fell out of my homeplace dreaming :)

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  24. ps: I love your new, dreamy banner! Is that one of your original creations? I adore it!

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  25. Beautiful. I love the journey of re-visiting childhood places as an adult ... it can be rather magical.
    :)

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