Picture (Puzzle) Perfect

  I have a very sweet and talented friend who creates puzzles for her social media friends.  I am blessed to have her, not only as a friend but as a family member!  Her puzzles give me a much needed break during the day and add a bit of brightness to the world of the internet.  While on the pier the other evening, I took several pictures of the sunset.  It occurred to me that the sunsets and sunrises that I view on a daily basis could make some of the most gorgeous (albeit difficult!) jigsaw puzzles.  I am not sure just how long a puzzle of, say, a thousand pieces would take me to do with the colors in the horizon being exactly the same as in the reflection on the water.  Which piece would go where??

  The thought of jigsaw puzzles of the past and the ones of today made me giggle.  With technology giving us the opportunity to do the puzzles on the computer, we do not have to fret over lost pieces.  Back in the day, a jigsaw puzzle of a thousand or so pieces would take over the dining table in a lot of homes.  Folks were destined to eat in the kitchen because the "table was occupied"!  The tiny cardboard fragments with a bit of the image would be strewn on the edge of the table with the work space taking up the center.  Folks would wander through the dining room and invariably just "have" to set a piece in place.  The urge to find a fitting part was too strong to pass!  It never failed that one or more integral pieces would go missing between the time the box was opened and the puzzle completed. Whether the tiny piece was dropped on the floor and inadvertently swept up with the dust bunnies or kicked under the buffet, there was always the feeling of sheer agony just looking at that gaping hole in the middle of an otherwise gorgeous work of art! That said, there was also usually that one person who just "had" to put in the last piece and who would hide a piece just to have the honor of completing the puzzle.  Fretful times for other folks but this was a glorious accomplishment for the sneaky puzzle finisher!

  Not too many dining tables hold the brightly colored puzzle pieces these days.  Folks do not have time to sit back, relax with family and friends while assembling a puzzle.  What used to be a bit of good family entertainment seems to have fallen the wayside.  Sad..but at least, thanks to Tina, I can still take a few minutes to click a piece in place on my computer!  Hmmm...with that thought, perhaps I should dig in the closet and pull out one of the puzzles from years past.  Yep, I still have the ones that the kids and I did back some twenty years ago.  Maybe....