I love books and I love photo albums. Here is a picture of one of the many book cases I have scattered throughout my house. I can sit for hours looking through my photo albums reminiscing. How fortunate are we to be able to do that? Not too long ago, pictures of a lifetime of memories had to be stored solely in the photo albums of the mind. Now, memory lane can be revisited in an instant by glancing at a photograph taken many years ago.

Books are special to me as well. Who doesn't love a good story? How tragic that children today spend so little time reading. Admittedly, I don't read as much as I'd like to. Work, family commitments and household chores keep me from enjoying this activity. But when I do find a little spare time, I happily have a plethora of books to choose from.

A photograph is a memory in the raw. - Carrie Latet

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. -Eudora Welty

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

If kids are entertained by two letters (TV), imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. -Unknown