I haven’t missed very many of these weekly photo challenges, but I thought I might have to miss this one. After all, I live in cold, puritan, New England, southern New Hampshire to be exact. We’re a pretty dour group up here, there’s not a lot of public displays of affection, or at least not so much that we’re all snapping photos of each other kissing in Boston Public Garden. There may even be laws against kissing in public dating back to the Pilgrims still on the books in some New England towns.
New Hampshire is not on the list of romantic destinations, Vermont maybe, but not New Hampshire. Picture the works of Russell Banks such as ‘Continental Drift’ , or maybe the town of Starkfield in ‘Ethan Frome’ by Edith Wharton. It’s not Venice.
So I had to go back 3-1/2 years for this one. This is my Mom and my son. He’s just a few days old, we just arrived back from the hospital.
I’m hiding behind the flowers to take this photo, otherwise my Mom would cite those old Puritan laws against images of people kissing.
Very cute – being a grandparent is the best!
Yes, the spoiling begins at birth!
cute pic
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Blowing kisses is definitely a kiss! I like your post about the puritan New England and how you had to hide behind flowers!
Thanks! I have few pictures of my mom because she will throw up her hands to hide if she sees a camera!
Brilliant – un-puritism at work.
Lovely photo…..I don’t snap many kissers here in Scotland either….those deep Protestant roots
So I went for natures kisses 
I’d check it out but I don’t know where your blog is!
I almost skipped this one too because it is not what I typically photograph but I found a couple tucked away that I plan to use…
I’ve been out of the loop.
Eliz
It was a hard one this week, but then I quickly remembered the one and only photo I have that would work.
Aw, how cute! He’s really staring at her, isn’t he?
I don’t go around snapping photos of people kissing either. That’s why I thought the photo of the kissing orcas was very handy for this week’s theme!
I know, it really was a challenge this time. I think this is the only picture I have that even closely fits. Might have a picture or two from weddings, but that’s so long ago that they’re on film and not scanned. So it was either this one or one of our two cats with their paws around each other.