The Pictures I Keep On The Dressing Table

[poliphilo]

Alice by the river in Durham



Michael picking cherries in his Grandma's garden in Kentucky



Joe tackling a big ice cream at the Louisville zoo. (Every time he looked away his aunt- just out of frame- leaned over and took a bite. He was mystified.)

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You Alice is already on my FL. :)

My Alice is 30.

Can I ask why you chose the name? In my case it's because I'm a Lewis Carroll fan.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I'm 31 and also an Alice. I think Lewis Carroll had something to do with it in my case too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's quite simply my favourite name.

There's a lovely poem by William Morris that begins

Lady Alice, Lady Louise,
Between the wash of the tumbling seas,
We are ready to sing, if so ye please;
So lay your long hands to the keys;
Sing, "Laudate pueri"....

It's called The Blue Closet

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

I had nothing to do with it--she's my stepdaughter. :) But she was named after her father's mother, a formidable woman, and there are many Alices in that family line, going back to Norman France. Her middle names are after her mother's grandmother's.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes....

That's another reason for loving the name- that it's Norman French!

[ibid.livejournal.com]

They remind me of Carroll's photographs come to think of it

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Gosh. Thank you....:)

[ibid.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alice_Liddell_2.jpg

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So unlike the girl in the Tenniel illustrations.

And slightly disturbing to a 21st century sensibility.