Cellphone creations, sometimes

Usage examples of snapshots.

Ephrairn Patriot-Ledger was carefully clipped out and tacked to the kitchen bulletin board, where it prevailed for months, a smiling and not accusing presence, until, eventually, it was covered over by newer clippings, Polaroid snapshots, Morn's FAMILY CALENDAR, pages of brilliant color from Burpee's seed catalogue.

Mom would say dryly-in one of the pastures, and though the baby in the snapshots commemorating this occasion would have to have been my Sister Marianne, in July 1960, I was able to convince myself Yes I was there, I remember.

The kitchen bulletin board, Corinne's province, was festooned with snapshots of Marianne: receiving a red ribbon for her juicy plum-sized strawberries a few years ago at the state fair in Albany, and, last year, two blue ribbons-again for strawberries, and for a sewing project.

Most of the snapshots of Marianne were of her cheerleading, in her Mt.

Festooned with color snapshots, clippings, blue and red ribbons, Dad's Chamber of Commerce "medal," dried wildflowers, gorgeous seedcatalogue pictures of tomatoes, snapdragons, columbine.

There are snapshots of the three of us-I mean, the four of us-in which Mikey-Junior, a husky curly-haired little boy, cuddles me, a small infant, in his arms, with a dazzling grin at the camera.

One of my favorite snapshots, which I'd stolen away with Re: when I left High Poimit Farmn, is pencilled on the back in Mom's handwriting, Chickadee & Baby Judd, Xmas 1964.

Naturally there are fewer snapshots of me than of the other babies in the overflowing faniily album, which I didn't interpret as a lack of interest in i-ne personally (I know Mom loved me, a lot) but a diminution of baby as a subject.

Any snapshot that included him was naturally of intense interest-though usually, being vain, and in his own eyes homely, gawky frowning bespectacled Pinch, he yearned to tear such snapshots into pieces.

He'd taken away with him from the house in Marsena, carelessly dumped into a box with financial papers and documents, a handful of snapshots from Corinne's albums.

Nor was it clear why exactly he was being shown these snapshots of happy strangers, why the transaction was important and what sort of response was expected.

Pushed the snapshots back at his son after a discreet interval of trying to figure them out.

They argued it was only in snapshots of my mother that I knew" her, not in my own true memory.

After my birth, my mother's health was so poor that no snapshots of her with me were ever taken.

Among the oldest snapshots in my grandmother's keeping was my father as a young man, dark, brawny, good-looking with thick tufted hair and a roguish smile, by degrees this young man aged into a sullen, slack-faced stranger with a perpetual two or three-day growth of beard.