[This is a terrible photo, but it's the only one I took yesterday that I'll admit to taking. It was only shot to be a thumbnail for a posting on a now-defunct site (“posterous”).] The upper floor hallway is freshly painted and it's time to put things back on the wall. This time we're hanging family photos — lots of them! — since we have “a couple.” This led me to a box of photos I saved from being thrown out when my dad moved a time or two ago.
Through the process, I found — behind another photo in a frame — my dad's high school graduation photo, which none of us kids or grandkids had *ever* seen before! We had only seen the one of him in his Army uniform (left-middle image above), which was in front of the high school graduation photo in the frame!
These scattered images are just of my mom and dad: mom as a baby, high school graduate and bride; dad as a boy (possibly another one we have never seen before) and two from his service in the U.S. Army. The color image of mom and dad is the last photo we have of mom. Taken in summer, 1990, mom passed away the following January (at 54). I think this is when my family became a wee bit more tolerant of my camera in their faces…
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I must say, photos are so special, and since my Dad's recent passing, they have taken yet another step up the "important" ladder. I am glad to hear you are going to be hanging these on your walls.
@sparkleplenty1 It was a bit of a misty morning going through these photos, and others. Nope; those are all of my parents. The lower right is my dad in 1935; he turned 80 last weekend. I'm an oldest with a b'day coming up this month and I already have my shot for that day in mind!
@shortperson2002 I was tickled, indeed! On the one hand, it's a bit of a surprise that there were still some enlargements I'd never seen before. On the other hand, it isn't much of a surprise that some photos could have escaped us all until now. At least they've been unearthed!
@digitalrn My mom died with 3 granddaughters: 4, 5 and 6. Now they are 24, 25 and 26. I know she would have enjoyed watching them grow up and make their own way as their own people (and bragged on them to anyone within earshot). Alas, it is not for any of us to choose when. Photos became ever so much more important at that time 20 years ago...
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@shortperson2002 I was tickled, indeed! On the one hand, it's a bit of a surprise that there were still some enlargements I'd never seen before. On the other hand, it isn't much of a surprise that some photos could have escaped us all until now. At least they've been unearthed!