Dan Antion

Smiles for Cee – CFFC

We’ve read and shared a lot of words this past weekend, so I’ll give everyone a break today. If you missed our conversation with Damyanti Biswas on Saturday, I encourage you to take a look.

Today, I’m back with Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, and Cee says:

This week our topic is Smiles. Any kind of smile or happy face. I so hope you have some fun with this topic.

Let’s see what we can find in the archive. Note: you have to imagine some of the smiles.

Painted stone.
“Sometimes I need dad and Smiley”
Eat’n Park Smiley Cookie – Go Bucs
“Follow the bouncing Eat’n Park Smiley cookie…” as we sing “Take me out to the ballgame.”
Hi Preston. Smile for your fans.
I think I’ve seen that cat face before
Someone is happy things are getting green
Close-up of the painted rock.
“Faith came to see me. We’re sitting. I’m happy – I love Faith!”
You can see that some people still manage to drive out here.
“Thanks for noticing!” Someone left this painted rock of Eeyore in the park.
Maddie’s Scooby ball – for Wendy.
I’ve been to ballgames with lots of people but taking Faith to her first Pirates game was a special treat for me.
Heinz Field on the way to watch Monday Night football
Two of my favorites from the past – both performed at the Big-E many years ago.
‘look at me! look at me now!’ said the cat. ‘with a cup and a cake on the top of my hat! i can hold up TWO books! i can hold up the fish! and a little toy ship! and some milk on a dish! and look! i can hop up and down on the ball! but that is not all! oh, no. that is not all…


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  1. You have certainly caught some beautiful smiles there Dan. They are all beautiful, I love the stone and rock paintings they are lovely. The biggest smiles are of you and Faith together, and Maddie’s ( the dog ) huge smile for faith too.💜

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  5. Preston’s “smile” is the look of the superior species — how good of cats to tolerate us! Maddie, on the other hand, definitely knew how to smile; that is one very happy face for Faith. Good faces for a new week — thanks!

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  9. Thanks for starting my week off with such great smiles…especially Maddie’s. And Preston…well Preston is so darn handsome he really doesn’t have to smile. Love the painted rocks, particularly Eeyore. Dr. Seuss characters always bring a smile.
    Ginger

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    • Another Eyore fan. You’re in good company (with the editor), Ginger. Maddie always let us know when she was happy, and all it took was walking or sitting (or Faith, at which point we could leave and Maddie wouldn’t have cared). I hope your week is off to a good start.

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  11. Such great smiles today, Dan. Preston is such a handsome boy. Maddie–grinning ear to ear. What a sweetheart. We don’t find painted rocks anymore–I wish we did. They always brought a smile.

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  12. Y’all sure have a lot of painted rocks! Makes me wish I never stopped as a kid. Obviously, people get a smile from them! Why do you have a Cat in the Hat balloon? Was Faith drinking a Mikes also. I used to love those! I can’t do the hard lemonades anymore. Y’all looked like you were having fun 🤩

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    • I usually see those painted rocks in the park where I walk. They leave them on the fence or near a tree. They make me smile, so I snag a picture. I don’t move them around. The Cat in the Hat is a stature inside the Dr. Seuss Museum in nearby Springfield, MA. He grew up there. The museum is close to the Mulberry Street he wrote about. Faith was probably also drinking Mike’s. There aren’t many choices at the stadium, but that’s always a good one. We were in Pittsburgh for a Steelers game.

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    • I’m glad, Cee. This was a great memory exercise for me. I didn’t have many photos tagged with ‘smile,’ so I had to think of where I had seen smiles. The Dr. Seuss Museum was a great place to find smiles, and The Cat in the Hat is a favorite character.

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    • I love it when Eat’n Park changes the Smiley to look like a pirate. I haven’t seen any painted rocks for a while. These were out there for months, although people moved them around a little. One even showed up on a bench in the park across the street. The Scooby ball was one of the few toys Maddie didn’t rip to shreds. It was a gift to her from our neighbor (Maddie’s favorite neighbor).

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  26. Hi Dan – wonderful and particularly the last one is making me cheerily happy … love all the photos and Preston, and Maddie … and the rest – cheers Hilary

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