{"id":3904,"date":"2009-02-10T22:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:08:26","slug":"wonderfully-ecclectic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"Wonderfully Ecclectic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that always strikes me about my Papa&#8217;s photos is he liked to take pictures of things that are seemingly inane &#8212; but turn out to be quite informative. Below is a photo of my Nana sitting on the side of the road having a picnic in the countryside (France)&#8230; because that&#8217;s what people did back then (up the street is another family having a picnic). My grandfather loved that car. You can tell my the way he&#8217;s carefully backed it in and how he&#8217;s incorporated it into the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01-595x396.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo below was taken just as my family arrived in Dover, U.K. from France. It looks like it&#8217;s early morning and you can almost feel the excitement in the air. The trip isn&#8217;t over: it&#8217;s about a 3.5-hour drive from Dover to Birmingham. Again, I love how my Papa incorporated cars into this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-04-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-04-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-04-26.jpg 613w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-04-26-595x388.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-04-26-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, as he was taking photos of my mom and her friends, my Papa somehow managed to slip in a few photos of&#8230; you guessed it&#8230; cars&#8230; The one with the white top is my grandfather&#8217;s. As I mentioned above, he loved that car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-01-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-01-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-01-21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-01-21-595x418.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sm-01-21-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3904 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=67209'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/med-04-01-400x400.jpg\" 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