B&W photos -- 2 pics I dug out of storage

[HCE SuiGeneris]

Please feel free to add your own B-)

My dear G'ma -- the matriarch.


Some foliage outside my house

[SeattleGirl]

1. I love that picture of your G'ma!

:hi:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Thanks SeattleGirl -- she was an amazing woman!

[Radio_Lady]

13. Beautiful photo, Seattle Girl. Looks like sepia tone.

Thanks on behalf of grandmothers everywhere!


Radio Lady Ellen in Mexico at Tulum with Mayan girls


Grandmothers Gathering

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear BushDespiser12!

These are both wonderful.......

I love your grandma! She looks like a great lady......

And I recognize the plants! I forget what the name is, though...

They're very hardy and like to be in a warm climate....

Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner, so my B&W pics will stay unseen...

Thank you for posting these tonight! :pals:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. TY very much CaliforniaPeggy

I actually just took digitals of them and cropped on the puter. Doesn't really do justice to the originals, but I wanted to post them. BTW, it was my grandmother that taught me how to develop in B&W. She gave me my first camera at 8 y/o -- a YashicaMat Box camera.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. We call that plant 'Bears Britches' and they grow profusely in our yard

The proper name is Acanthus mollis, but even my grandma, who planted them eighty years ago always called them Bears Britches.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Christmas with my sisters.

This was taken about 10 years ago. My baby sister is on the left, other sis is in the middle; I'm on the right.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. and an apropos Xmas tree in the back

Very nice :D

[Radio_Lady]

16. I'm jealous. I wish I had two sisters, or even one.

I'm an only child..<[[SIGH>]]

Beautiful family! Are you close to them?

[SeattleGirl]

18. Thank you, R_L. I'm very close to my sisters.

Kathy is 21 months younger than me; Karen is almost 12 years younger than me. They live in Springfield, btw.

I also have two brothers. I love 'em, but we aren't as close as my sisters and I are.

[Maddy McCall]

21. Same here, Radio Lady.

I've got one brother...and while I love him to death, I'm jealous of people with sisters.

My best friend is like a sister...so I'll have to count myself lucky that I have her.

:)

[Maddy McCall]

6. Not black and white, but kinda monochrome...

my Weimaraner Bisbee.

[crim son]

7. I've posted this once before but it's one of my favorite family pics:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. Who is that? - a regal lil prince it seems..... EDIT

I love the outfits of the era.

In looking back -- I really can't tell the gender :blush: :blush:

[crim son]

14. It's my great-grandfather on my father's side.

I'm quite sure he was treated like a prince! The picture I have of my grandfather as a baby is interesting too... he's wearing a whilte lace bonnet. Those were the days!

[Maddy McCall]

8. Your grandmother's photo.

What a beautiful woman she is. Is she still living?

Here's my maternal grandmother, the most beautiful soul I've ever known. She passed away almost two years ago, and I miss her so. :cry:

This was her as a young lass:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Unfortunately she passed away in '99

at the age of 98. She was and is a great part of who I am. Love the pic of your G'ma also -- what a wonderful smile!

[Maddy McCall]

12. Yes, I carry a part of my grandmother with me, too.

Thank you for complimenting her. She also had gorgeous skin--even til the day she died.

I'm sorry that you lost your grandmother, too. She is beautiful in that photo. She looks like a very warm, loving person.

:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

15. Your grandmother is lovely in that photo, Maddy

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

19. Thank you. I'm jealous that you have sisters.

I don't have any sisters--nice looking bunch above. :D

My mom has those dimples. My grandmother did, even at 92 years old.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

17. Look at that dimple!

[Maddy McCall]

20. Thanks, Radio Lady.

Yeah, she had Texas-size dimples. A true Texas gentlewoman, she was.

[swag]

22. Laundry day with J, H,, and nefarious tobacco 1983

[xchrom]

23. that pic of your grandma is amazing.

[applegrove]

24. Love the grandma photo. She looks so cool.

[wildhorses]

26. here are some of my B&W (i love B&W)

ducks in the pond




me, age fourteen




the dog and the mountain




my boys in the backyard




on edit--thanks everyone for sharing the pix:loveya:

they are all GREAT:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

27. Not old but B&W

(and edited out nip, :rofl: )

[lizziegrace]

28. At my great-aunt's wedding

around 1930?
We refer to this as the Greek Mafia. :)