MARKING THE DAY

This is a photo of SWMBO (Judy) and I celebrating the anniversary of our wedding day.

That jolly lad seems to have a darker head of hair and beard.

And he's holding a cigarette in one hand!

They both appear . . . well . . . younger.

They were.

This was our 20th wedding anniversary in a village called San Antonio Tlayacapan in Mexico.

We caroused with a crowd of some 20 or so friends.

The year was 1991.

Yesterday we quietly celebrated another anniversary.

Our 54th as a married couple.

The beard is whiter and so is the hair.

As we remarked on the event we noted that there have been some ups and downs to this marriage.

But somehow it and we have endured.

So yesterday we were just the two of us.

Judy cooked a pork tenderloin and roasted sweet potatoes and, of course, made a wonderful salad of chunks of cantaloupe and mango.

We opened a bottle of Prosecco but unlike in those heady years of our youth we only drank about half of it.

We both quit smoking when we returned to "the States", over thirty years ago.

With age comes some wisdom and a certain calmness of spirit.

As well as a deepening love.