dial tone
I don't even know where to start with this image. It is a close-up photograph of my grandparents' house phone. This phone now has a place in our home. But when it was in my grandparents' house in Houston, Texas it is part of very vivid memories I have of my grandfather (my childhood hero) talking on the phone. It is the phone he would talk to me with when I was at home in Orange, Texas. I have held on to many items that remind me of my grandfather - but none more intensely and directly as this phone.