June/July 2025 Prompt

This photo makes me smile and cry at the same time. The photo is of my dad’s last birthday - April 30, 2024. He passed one month shy of turning 84. If I had known, I would have taken 1000 photos. What makes me smile is just how much fun my dad was - and how supportive he was to my dedication to document events. We had searched high and low and could not find a match or lighter anywhere. But I really wanted a photo of him blowing out his candles so - the good sport that he was - he let me take a bunch of pics of him pretending. He never hesitated to indulge my requests for serious and funny photos. I don’t know if I thanked him enough.