Pretty ladies

All dressed up and...

September 2009...Black Mountain, NC.

This lovely little lady from Sepia Saturday (HERE) has her hair perfectly in place...and her dress, and shoes and socks.  And she is probably writing a thank you letter to her grandmother.

All of which my mother strived to get me to do, to no avail!

But when I grew up I enjoyed having grown-up tea parties, where we had fun and acted somewhat like what we thought our mothers might have had in mind all along...some of us chose to even wear hats. 

These are photos of some women who got together on an afternoon to drink tea and eat dainty things. We also told some interesting stories, and I can't remember what the topics were, but there were lots of laughs!  I'm not going to try to list all their names.  Some of these wonderful women, so full of life and laughter here, have died since this afternoon tea party.

 The UUCSV banner stands for Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley

 Quote for today:

Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
MAYA ANGELOU