What's In a Picture

Well this is something of a milestone... blog post number 1000.  The event calls for a special story:

He sat on the toy box in his children's room comparing the room to the two pictures in front of him. The first picture, taken with his digital camera was unnerving enough that he had searched out an old Polaroid camera. He felt certain the Polaroid could only record what was in front of it whereas the digital camera - well, who knew what might go on inside data chips and megabytes.

And yet both pictures showed the same thing. A room furnished with a wide four poster bed, a dark oak armoire, and a small writing table.

In just two camera clicks his home was turned into a foreign, uncomfortable place.  Both pictures were taken this very night in the very room in which he now sat. And the room in which he was sitting was furnished with a set of bunk beds, a toy box, and two bureaus painted semi-gloss white.

A prickling at the back of his neck caused him to look up. He watched as a woman wearing a flowing dress, ankle high shoes with black buttons, and a linen bonnet that tied under her chin entered the room....through the wall...and sat at a desk that wasn't there.