Tag: Family

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?

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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?

Children Are A Gift

by Eric Schwab, UN, India
by Eric Schwab, UN, India

3 Children are a gift from the Lord;
    they are a reward from Him.
4 Children born to a young man
    are like arrows in a warrior’s hands.
5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!

Psalm 127:3-5

A Life Well-Lived

March 1945
March 1945

I received word that my granddad passed away this morning at the age of 94. Many moons ago, he, like many in The Greatest Generation, fought in WWII, so that you and I could have the freedom we enjoy. But more than a soldier, he was a good father and grandfather.

He enjoyed hearing my son play the piano.

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And even shooting pool with him last August.

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Rest in peace, Granddad.

 

Vintage Scenes From Kansas, Part II

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Welcome back to vintage Kansas! Here, a cute pinafored threesome pose in front of non-GMO corn.

And below, you see a couple who were clearly fruitful and multiplied.

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Not even a delicious fruit-filled cellar could make up for the treeless flatland of this barren landscape.

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Settin’ On The Stoop

Walter Duplantis and daughter Clara Ann, Louisiana 1947 from
Walter Duplantis and daughter Clara Ann, Louisiana 1947

Whether it’s a father-daughter moment like the one above, or a soldier on leave from WWII, the general store porch stoop offered a place to socialize (and a place for barefoot girls to sit).

Brown Summit, North Carolina 1944
Brown Summit, North Carolina 1944