music monday ♥ first love ♥

i got thinking about earliest memories and the music of my childhood. my soundtrack. musical roots.

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my earliest memory of music is swift but vivid. i was in the back seat of my parents car - I remember it was yellow, with warm black bucket seats, that kind that left a woven impression on your legs. my mom was driving, the window was open, the sun shone in and she was singing this song as it played on the radio.

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i still remember it like it was yesterday when i hear this song. a moment caught in a song's web. i never tire of it, my first love. it's my little happy go to place.

so, do tell, what are your first memories of music? do you still love them like I do mine? happy monday!

♥ leel

night whites

the flowers around the yard this spring are all early.

the crabapple tree blooms as i type this, the first time for my birthay. i love it.

i have a lot of white in the back gardens; a night garden effect, they call it.

the whites shine bright at night, allowing the gardens that line the yard to come alive from our deck in the darkness.

i love photographing white. i just do. the colours that emerge and reflect when you look deeper always surprise and delight. here are a few i have been playing with. i can't stop looking at them!

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happy sunday!

♥ leel

aka

today is the day i was born, 37 years ago. 1973.
i had a name. it was Tina Fuller. nobody except my mother knew it though.
she never touched me, she says, just saw my face as i was rushed out of the room.
for a while i lived in the hospital.
for a few weeks i lived with foster parents.
i wish i knew what they called me. who they were.
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one day in late june i became Keeley D.
became part of my family.
i married and kept that name.
it is who i am.
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but i always wonder about Tina.
and that other baby, who had another name for a few weeks.
and the father who knows nothing of any of it.
this year i really want to say happy birthday to them all.
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i'm not sad. i mean, i love my life. my adoptive family. my husband.
i celebrate this day. but i do wonder about it all for a few moments on this day every year.

♥ leel