A Rich History

One of the things I've been working on lately is scanning some old slides from my grandfather's house, making them digital. Most of them are dated in the late 50's, up through the early 70's. It's been a wonderful project to do. He used color slide film (back when most people were still using black and white), so there are a few pictures of me as an infant in color (some of the better photos are posted here)

Most of the pictures I have of me from way back then were black and white, so that was a really pleasant surprise. There were several good vintage pictures among the other people I probably never met; a few pictures of my Mom as a young woman, who fell in love with my Dad back then, old family photos.

I finished scanning them before my parents arrived, and we got to watch the first unedited slide show together, with my parents and my aunt talking about the people in the pictures. And it reminds me that wherever we go in our own lives, it's family that gives us a rich history of who we are, where we came from.

If you have old slides, old photographs you haven't looked at in a long time, I encourage you to drag them out, talk about them with your kids; they'll have a greater appreciation for who you are, what you've been through. It might even explain to them your little quirks they don't understand. :)

Family HUGS to everyone!

PS: I put the finishing touches on the slide show today, and created slide show DVDs, making enough copies for all my cousins. What a fun surprise they'll get in the mail!

This is my Aunt Carol, potato harvest day
love the vintage car with horns, the old truck,
and the outhouse, of course :)