THE "MORGUE" in Postcards 4

Crow Landing, Pinterest, © Sandra Smith, SnowPoring.deviantart.com on @deviantART

I’m looking for a detailed picture of a crow landing. Yes, there were lots of pictures of crows on Google, but not a detailed one of a crow landing. That was a while ago. Yesterday I looked up the main library hours, then I called to see if the morgue still existed. It did, up on ‘A’ floor. They call it the “picture file.”

“It hasn’t been updated in many years,” a nice man named Pete told me. “The volunteer who had been doing it retired. They probably wouldn’t be keeping it much longer.” The man in charge didn’t see any reason to keep the many file cabinets or acres of fragile paper pictures.

We drove down to our wonderful new library and discovered that there was no free parking on Padres game days. We came home the errand way….new white compression stockings for me, new filters for the car, and Ralphs for grapefruit segments. He loves them…and I am putting them with Avocado for a dinner salad. Yes, the 1950’s foods still live in our house.

I looked up flying Crows, and G looked up landing Crows. There they were in Google.

It’s truly gut wrenching, it’s the end of a unique artistic tool, but there is really no reason at all to keep those acres of paper images.
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• Himself: Ran me around happily and kindly.


• Myself: Was delighted to see so many walls covered with murals on the back of downtown. Was really saddened to see one street lined with the homeless…most were gathered near small churches.


• Reading: Volume 4 in the Library series.


• Gratitude’s: That neither G nor I are homeless.