Dale offers the prompt “picturing the past” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The top photo is an old house preserved in a park in Illinois. I imagine it is sometimes open for tours, but I have only looked through the windows.
In the bottom photo is a bookshelf I made myself. I use it for old books I bought decades ago. They are mostly books on mathematics which is what I studied. They are also mostly unread. I picked a photo where the titles were blurry, since what I did read back then is now blurry in my mind and I have no longer any desire to make it clearer.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Wow. Love the photos. I am always amazed by that style construction. I really appreciate the books. For a long time I kept all of mine.
Blessings.
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The bookshelves were simple to construct using screws and low-grade 1 by 8 boards. All hand tools. Thank you, Michael!
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The bookshelf photo is remarkable, Frank. Such deep meaning.
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Those books are all a blur. Thank you, Dan!
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Your blurry books are a great metaphor!
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It is a past that is vaguely remembered. Thank you, Cassa!
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Very nicely thought out post, Frank, I like it.
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Thank you, Dale!
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I loved the photos you picked for the prompt and your explanation of them – I too am reminded of a lot of books that I still keep but am not interested in opening them.
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Good point about giving them away. I am still attached to them in some way. Thank you, Pragalbha!
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I too am attached to those books and so still keep them 🙂
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There are never sufficient bookshelves, nor enough books–my opinion 🙂
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I do like to keep books, even though I no longer plan to read. them Thank you, Zelda!
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I have many unread ones on my shelves…keep thinking one day I’ll get to them 🙂
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Makes me think of books and libraries I’ve visited in the past!
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It was the style of book shelves in used book stores I visited in the past.
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Ah gotcha Frank for the explanation
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Excellent photos for the prompt. The blurred bookshelf is a familiar scene. We started donating our old books, which some are hard to part with.
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I have donated many old books, but some still retain too many memories and there is still space on the shelves. Thank you, Eugenia!
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Thanks for checking out my Presup round up Frank
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I especially enjoy those presuppositional apologetics lists you put together. There is always something there I haven’t seen before or something worth re-reading.
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That’s encouraging to hear
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Your comment about not making your mind clearer is interesting. I think you are making it clearer but just in a different direction. My son is studying mathematics.
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I remember enjoying mathematics. I wish your son the best in his studies. Thank you, Robbie!
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