Hanging On The Front Porch

Hanging on the Front Porch

Our House

Philly

1994

We spent hours on this porch. We opened up our proch season around March or April every year and we closed up this gathering place around mid to late October. Mostly we sat out here in the eveinings, after dinner.  Someone would make tea and we would gather togther even though we had just spent the last hour at the dinner table. Sometimes, neighbors would wander by and they would come up and join us.  Sometimes, our next door neighbors were out on thier porch and we would shout out short conversations to them.

We would stay out there until it got too dark or the bugs got too bad.

When my mother died, my firned told me that she will miss the tea on the porch, the most.  And that's what I also miss the most.