Missing my mom. This is mom in the summer of ’57 on the Staten Island ferry. It was her first time going back to visit her parents in NY after getting married and moving to Cleveland. I lost my mom in 2006. She always looked forward to her yearly visits back to NYC to see […]
My very first Christmas, 1954. Looks like everyone got rockers for their new babies. We were all baby girls and there were still two more yet to come! It was pretty awesome growing up in a family of all girls. My big sisters Chrissy and Patty were wearing their new Christmas dresses that my mother […]
I believed. Me and Santa. Macy’s, Herald Square, NYC. No velvet dress or crinoline for me. It was a wool, flannel, cotton Christmas. After all, Santa is from the North Pole! I loved that suspenders outfit…still do love suspenders! ~shared by @carolelizabethdietz (Carol shares a treasure trove of beautiful vintage photos on her feed, […]
I have never taken this picture of my dad, circa 1951, out of its frame with an oval mat until today. What I discovered was magical…It’s a beautiful contact print and you can see where he drew a picture and wrote his name “Tommy.” I love little surprises like this. I’ll keep on making photos […]
Me and Nan taking a tour of Byrd Airport. Nan was my grandmother. She was full of style, humor and joie de vivre. She smoked Marlboro reds and loved coffee ice cream. We often laughed until we cried. I’d give anything to have her back for an hour. We never ran out of things to […]
Moments become memories. Memories become stories. Stories become legacy. This is a photo of my paternal grandparents, Anne and Al, on their wedding day September 9, 1943 in Topeka Kansas. He was a Navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps in WWII and called Annie to meet him in Kansas when he had a few […]
Meet my great grandfather William David Brown, who was born in 1892 in Scotland and married Daisy Benford in 1917. They met before World War I, probably through their fathers, who were both coachmen. They lived just around the corner from Buckingham Palace. William was already serving in the British Army at the outbreak of […]
How’s this for a spooky October photograph? This is my mother, Linda (far right) and her cousins dressed up as mice in October 1962 in Point Au Baril, Ontario. My mother was an only child, but she didn’t suffer from OCS (Only child syndrome). In fact, growing up she was incredibly close with her parents, […]
Meet my great aunt Francis and her true love, Al. Their love story is bittersweet. My grandparents, Bob and Bess, were best friends with Al and Francis. From other pictures I’ve looked at, the four of them lived life to the fullest. They went boating, camping, fishing and dancing together. They always whooped it up! […]
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” Sam Abell While visiting family in Minnesota, I found six Kodachrome slides amongst my mom’s old photos. I had never seen a color photo of her at this age (nor my grandma, grandpa, and aunt) until I digitized this one. 1956, Amnicon Lake, Nanc is on the […]
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