A Golden Day

Speaking of beautiful days, i got to spend time with some very special friends from Hawaii today. They recently moved to San Diego so we met 70/30 in both Hermosa and Manhattan Beach. Had a lovely little brunch at Gumtree and then mosied around a bit. 

Grace had seen an antique store on her way in so we all decided to head toward it after lunch. We found it and were walking through when i saw a grouping of Little Golden Books. When i saw them i mentioned to Grace my grandfather used to illustrate some of the Golden Books back in the 50's and as i was saying that, i had one in my hand. I opened it up and sure enough, there on the first page it said "illustrated by Edwin Schmidt". It was Old Yeller, from 1957, cost 29 cents. So cool to see it! And that it was the first one i picked up! I bought it and have it here with me tonight as i'm writing this. It's funny too because Kara had just posted a picture of Evelyn and Edwin from the 50's on Instagram only a couple days ago. Maybe he's watching over me :-)