Saturday Photo Hunt – Youth

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Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.I’ve been thinking about this week’s photo hunt pretty much all week. ‘Youth’ is a pretty relevant topic to me at the moment with the transition from my 20’s to my 30’s, getting grey hairs, needing glasses, losing family members and all the other things in life that remind me that I’m a grown up now. No matter how much I don’t want to be.

I can’t just choose one photo for this theme, instead I will post a small series of photos.

Dad and Nana Muriel Two of the most important and influential people in my life, my father and his mother. This is my favorite of all my family photos.

It’s hard to believe they were so young once and to imagine what life was like then. My grandmother left my grandfather when my father was three because he was abusive. This was a pretty brave thing for a woman to do in the 50’s. She raised him together with her sister and her mother. She was one of the strongest, smartest and most loving people I’ve ever known…

You can also see the mischeif in my father’s face in that photo too. He hasn’t changed a bit!

My parents when they were babies. Don’t you just love how photos were done back then? I love black and white photos but the color photos back then were so soft and gentle, it worked so nicely for baby photos. Seeing my parents as babies is strange, seeing their faces when they were so young and imagining when they were someone elses children rather than the parent of a child themselves.

Angel I wonder will someone ever look at my childhood photos that way. My children or their children, looking at this photo and trying to see a resemblance to the woman they know.

When I’m 80 will I look back at this photo and still recognize myself?

Will I still wish that I could go back in time and be that age again? I do now all the time, but I think when I’m 80 I’ll probably wish I could be 31 again too…

I love how I look so angelic and innocent in this photo! I think I actually was like that back then, still so young and naive. No sign of the evil bitch I’ve apparently grown up to be!

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25 comments

  1. Those are all great photos. Thanks for stopping by!

  2. The photo hunt each Saturday is so fun.
    Thanks for dropping by mine, and I now have the ‘answers’ to who they were.

  3. Sweet photos. Mine is up

  4. Back in the 80s, I used to hand color black & white photos, and I loved doing that! Beautiful pics, thanks for sharing! Too funny, reading Melli’s comment above…I’m 49, too ;-)

    thanks for visiting!

  5. Oh my… well, I doubt you’ve grown to be all that evil! And yes… I’m pretty sure when you’re 80 you would be more than happy to go back to 31! I’m only 49 and 31 would suit me to a Tee! LOL! These are all beautiful pictures… and I agree – the old color ones were really neat… I like the ones BEFORE that too that were sort of tan and white with VERY pastel colors painted in.

  6. Wow, cool old photo’s and yes it’s cool to look back at the folks in those old b&w photo’s

  7. Great interpretation!

    Thanks for stopping by mine :)

  8. I like the one of your dad as a kid. :)

  9. What wonderful photos! :) Mine’s up

  10. That is a lovely trip down memory lane!
    Wonderful!

    Mine’s up too! Drop by! *S*

  11. Grat post. Those photos are truly great, I love old photos, too.

    You were a cute one!

  12. Love the photos and stories. They used to hand-paint the colour in those old photos. Yours looks like it was done by an expert hand.

  13. great photos but love the accompanying stories even better! mine’s up! ;)

  14. Great photos and story

    Happy Saturday!

  15. The expression on your dad’s face in the top picture… priceless. You can almost tell he was gonna grow up to be somethine else. :P

    Seeing baby pictures is always so nostalgic. Now I really need to find some of mine. :P

    Happy Saturday!

  16. Beautiful photos and beautiful commentary. (I started wearing glasses in 2nd grade!)

  17. Great photos! I love the old photos and how they appear so soft too. I also agree that someday we’ll all look back at photos of ourselves at different stages of our life and wish we were back there again, or at least appreciate how we looked and what we were doing more than at the time the photo was taken.

  18. Oh how I love old photo’s, and the story too….love the story behind them!

  19. Great photo’s. Mines up too!

  20. You’re lucky it took you that long to need glasses – I’ve worn mine since I was 12! :)

  21. What a fabulous collection!

    My Saturday photos are posted. Come by, and see if you can guess who they are!!

  22. Beautiful photos! Take care. Dani

  23. Oh what great photos! I love old b&w ones. And your are right about the old color ones – they do look much softer than the ones today.

    Happy Saturday!

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