Beneath the Wraps

            As soon as Jenna returned home from school yesterday, Roland and I went to a neighbor's house to pick apples.   Jenna did not wish to go.  Instead, she started on some homework she had.   When I returned, she asked me to help her with a specific topic.   She had been assigned to write about an invention and had picked cameras as her topic.   Oh, yes.   What a great historical item.                My first suggestion to her was to make a comment on the straight faces that are seen in so many old photographs.   No one is smiling.   They all look serious.   Cameras seemed to be a lot heavier and bulkier back then.   It would take the photographer a huge amount of time just to set up his equipment and even longer to capture the pose.           ...

(I Thought I Would Need a Sad-Face Icon but Received a Rainbow Instead)               Thursday was the last day for checking out books.   The library is closed now.   All checked out media is to be returned to the drop box by April 25.               There was a rumor going around that a film crew would be there interviewing patrons as they have at many other libraries across the nation.   Nobody knew what time.               Jenna and I left the house just after 12:00 and headed to the library with books and games in hand.   Someone sat at our regular table; she was using the Wi-Fi - I think. The mayor had come with his wife and had taken several pictures before the film crew arrived.                 As volume i...