Dinos Help Organize Photos

I know that on Sunday when I posted the "Cozy" picture of two of the dinosaurs, I said I was going to look for more exciting projects to submit to their themes committee. But my get pushed partner, Dianna Coile @dmcoile challenged me to "create an image that shows a wish or goal for the new year. If the dinosaurs can help, that would be great!"

Well, my resolution for this new year is to get more on top of filing -- of all sorts of media such as paper files, computer files, and old photos taken on film. I have a couple of drawers full and they are not very well organized. I decided to start with those photos. Knowing I'm going to need help and encouragement, I asked if any of the dinosaurs would be willing to help me with that -- no long term commitments needed, just this one evening.

The adult Apatosaurus, one of the two Apatosaurus youngsters, and the Stegosaurus said they'd do it. I'm so glad they did. They were a real help, pulling the packets out and opening them up. They even helped identify when and where some of the photos from Minneapolis were taken.

Then we ran into these photos of Frank's dad and we just had to stop and look at them. Even though the photos didn't date from when Frank was a boy, they took the dinosaurs back to that time when they lived in the house with him and his mom and dad. Some reminiscing took place and I saw a couple of tears hastily wiped away. The dinosaurs and Neanderthal Man haven't seen Frank's dad for a long, long time. I'm not sure when they came up to Minnesota. We moved there in 1973, but I think they stayed in Kansas for a while. Anyway, once they moved north they never saw him again. When we visited on vacation, we never took any dinosaurs with us. And his dad passed away before we all moved back to Manhattan.

We did get back on track, but not before I remembered my get pushed challenge and got out the camera to take this picture. I've still got a lot of photos to sort out. All we did that evening was label a good bunch of packets. I need to get an archival safe pen to write on the back who is in each photo and when/where it was taken. I think it will take well into 2017.

ALL the dinosaurs and Neandethal Man join Frank and me in wishing you all a Happy New Year.

[Deni]

And a very happy new year to you Mary 😃 Do love the Dinosaurs. Saw the film 'The good Dinosaur' with my grandson when down there just before Xmas. Wasn't too impressed, but he loved most of it, some bits he found a bit scary though!!

[Mary Siegle]

@dmcoile here is my New Year's wish/resolution

[Bette B]

What a lovely, touching story. Happy New Year to you and your dinosaur family, too.

[Dianna Coile]

Great response! And what a huge commitment! I'm glad you had the dinos to help, even if just for the evening. After all, it was very emotional for them. Such true friends, those dinos!

[Vesna]

Happy New Year to you and yours, Mary!

[Francoise]

wonderful story, wonderful picture, wonderful resolution. Happy New Year!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great New Year's resolution and I can certainly sympathize with the saunter down memory lane. I have a lot of photos that do that for me. In a way it's very healing to remember. Bravo to the dino and Mr. N for being such helpful project managers today!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

All the best in your endeavours, that sounds like quite a commitment, especially with so many photos evoking so many memories.
Happy New Year to you.

[Joyce]

Thanks for your challenge Mary. It may be wet rust as it hasn't stopped raining here since before Christmas! How about a night shot/ Anything you like but taken after dark. If this is difficult for any reason let me know and I'll suggest something else.

[Mary Siegle]

@thistle Thanks, Joyce! Since it gets dark pretty soon at this time of year, I can't use the challenge as an excuse for staying up way later than I should!

[Apothecary7]

I do like your fun shot and wishing you and yours all the best for 2016 :-)

[Joyce]

Mary my attempt at the Get Pushed challenge you set for me is here http://365project.org/thistle/365