Photo albums are a thing from the past. But should they be?? I've always been a huge picture taker, it started when I got my first camera at 11. I think it was a Kodak Instamatic.
Photos were displayed in an album so you could look at them, remember good times with family and friends. But what will happen in the future when all our photos are on our phones? No one can see them unless you share on a public venue, Facebook or Instagram for example.
I started taking mom's photo albums home to peruse. I created a Facebook group for family and have been sharing photos for 5 years now, so that the younger generations can see their family histories.
Once I started digging deep, I found Mom had envelopes with names on them, one for each of us kids. So I took those photos and put them in an album. Then I found another spot where she had stashed another set of envelopes with our names, photos of each of us inside. So those were put in the same album.
In yet another place, I found a cardboard box with about twenty 11x14 photos in them. Some I had never seen! And while it may be sacrilege to resize them, I trimmed to fit in my 12x12 album. Now they can be seen!
I'm going to share the album with mom on Christmas day. Will give us something to do. Maybe she will share some memories.
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