Miss Ruby Forsythe, 1987, Pawleys Island, South Carolina
one-room schoolhouse teacher for 50 years
I’ll Be Your Shelter
Tag: Family
Watermelon Sugar High
When Grandma Slips You Cash On The Downlow As You’re Leaving
Basking In The Natural Light
1908 by Emma Barton
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
left to right: her son Aubrey, herself, daughters Marjorie and Hilda, son Cecil, and daughter Dorothy
Warmth Of The Hearth
“Children Are A Poor Man’s Riches” – English Proverb
What a blessing has Johann Inauen, and I don’t mean his pipe. Son Reto could not be more smitten with papa, enjoying a childhood on a small Appenzell dairy farm in Switzerland. Idyllic indeed.
Lead Me
Pup Takes Precedence Over Pop
She Loves Me Like A Rock
How’s this for the mother and child reunion? What joy radiates from both of their faces. You can see why I couldn’t pass this snapshot up.
With Mother’s Day coming up, I thought I’d share a few pics of mothers and their children. She looks tickled to death that her son was granted a furlough to visit her.
This next mom lacks the enthusiasm of the others, but perhaps the corset has got her muscles too tightened to smile.
And lastly, we have a much more recent pic that looks to be from the 60s. If you ask me, it looks like Shirley Temple Black and a Kewpie doll.
Am I right or Amarillo?
Witchy Women
Those eyes prove these two are related. Probably sisters–sandwiched between a stern mother and a less terrifying sister. Clasped hands, similar necklaces, and those eyes that stare up and out with…what? Mischief? Sorcery?
Pillars In The Garden
Basin Bath By Light Of The Oil Lamp
This Northwest Angle, Minnesota mommy suds up her baby on a Saturday night in a metal basin near the kitchen stove.
