Dick Grote Turns 75 Years Old:

My cousin Dick Grote turned 75 years old on June 11, 2011,

and Hathaway Studios did a photo shoot of the event:

Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? . . .

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

And in short, I was afraid.

-T.S. Eliot-- 1919

20"X 30" Photo by

James E. Hathaway,

Hathaway Studios

2011  ©