The Power of Love
Hails at Coffee Helps tagged me for a Photo-story.
The idea is to rummage around in your photo folders in the computer, dust them down and tidy up the shelf ready for inspection. Then open folder number four and select the fourth photo. Insert said photo here and tell the story behind it.
Since Today is not the fourth but the sixth of February, I cheated and chose the sixth folder. It was still up there in the ‘B’ section.
Sixth folder… sixth photo… Voila!
I know some of you have seen it before. It was taken post Irish Blog Awards in March of last year. That is me - didn’t I look young? The camera never lies! ;) Now no rotten tomatoes please, you are supposed to be nice to old ladies! 
On the table beside me are my computer hard-drive that George my Son-in-Law had updated for me, The Champagne I won at the Irish Blog Awards 2008 and some beautiful flowers that arrived the following morning - Mother’s Day.
Towards the end of February last year I wrote the post Flower Power, it was inspired by Eamonn of Flowers Made Easy who was hosting a bloggers competition with a prize for ‘the best blog post about your mum‘. Since my mother was dead, I told the story of another mother’s great love. My post was not a winner but I was! Elly wrote a post about me and told dreadful lies said nice nice things about me. Honest, I didn’t bribe her… I didn’t know she had written it.
Well you can imagine my surprise when on Wednesday last I had a new comment on Flower Power. It was from Eamonn telling me about another competition, this time for St Valentine’s Day. All the details are below.
So, on with the thinking caps, and out with the pencils… if you are not in then you can’t win! Stop and think for a moment ,about when you first realised that you were truly madly deeply in love with the light of your life; then sit and write about it. Wouldn’t it be worth it to win the 12 Red Roses, a Bottle of Bubbly and a box of Chocs!
Now if only I had a Truelove… well I might have had a go myself!
Ian said,
February 6, 2009 at 1:10 pm
After twenty-five years of marriage, it is hard to think of anything newly romantic to say!
Grannymar said,
February 6, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Ian,
You surprise me.
Give it a go and you might even surprise yourself!
steph said,
February 6, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Woo Hoo! What a proud looking Grannymar and rightly so!
Please Missus, can I be excused this task ‘cos I dun thurty years?
I need ‘RomanceMadeEasy’ at this stage
Nick said,
February 6, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I actually posted about Jenny and me for Valentine’s Day last year!
http://nickhereandnow.blogspot.com/2008/02/cupids-whims.html
I’ll have to dust it off and send it in!
Karen said,
February 6, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Just tried it Grannymar, and the fourth photo in the fourth folder is of my brother passing out from Templemore. The strange thing is that it was 2 years ago today! Spooky
rummuser said,
February 6, 2009 at 3:30 pm
younger? You look stunning! I am glad that it was 6/6. Just for the heck of it why don’t you post the 4/4 too? Unless you do not want us prying types to be kept in blissful ignorance!
Pyaar key saath.
Grannymar said,
February 6, 2009 at 3:59 pm
@Steph - You should be leading by example!
@Nick - Go for it!
@Karen - Nice one!
@Ramana - Folder 4 was a collection of photos I had for a photo challenge you can find them here in Black Watch
Darlene said,
February 6, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I’ll have to take a pass on the competition as I have been a widow for 24 years and I am not rich enough to have toy boys. It would be nice to win that romantic looking prize, though.
Grannymar, you are a beautiful lady and you do look young.
Grannymar said,
February 6, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Darlene,
We may be on our own now but we still have our memories! Enjoy dipping back into the past.
Baino said,
February 6, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Oh lookie you all pretty in pink!
Alas, I have no Valentine. Unrequieted love maybe but that’s my little secret. I fear that flowers would just wilt in the heat right now.
Grannymar said,
February 6, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Baino,
Secrets? Spill, spill!