Them.

Normally challenges are exciting for me.
I love them and this one was extremely
challenging for me.
I do not do vintage.
But I like to rise above that and allow
the creative side in me come out.
This challenge was both invigorating
and peaceful for me to do.
Mainly because of them.
Those two people in the photo
are my gram and my mom.

Patricia Jean Elders
age 23
Born June 5th 1922

Carole Ann Miller
age 2
Born December 28th 1942

When I look at this photo I
am simply amazed.
Not just because they are both
extremely beautiful
but I find myself wondering
who they were at the time
this was snapped.
What were they thinking?
What does the smirk on my
mom's face mean?
What kind of a little girl was she?
And her hair.. It's curly, wavy.
Her face is fuller than I remember
that of my mom.
Alyssa looks a lot like her there.
Was she happy?
Did she play in the mud or
have a favorite doll?

And my gram. Honestly she is
truly beautiful. The mental picture
I have in my mind of my gram
isn't this. I know she was extremely
popular, fashionable, and strong.
I know how much she loved my mother.
So very much.
And how good friends they were.

I find myself wondering what kind of
relationship they had while my mom
was growing up.

I wonder what they did that day
this was taken? And who took it?

I am so thankful for this etched photo.

But more than anything this photo
makes me ache. For a mom that
is with Jesus and a gram that I do
not really know.....

Whether this layout is really vintage
or not, does not really matter.
What does is that I have this
single photo of two people who
mean a great deal to me, even if I
did not know them in this photo,
I know them in my life today....

Thank you Rebecca for creating this
challenge and even though it was
meant for it to be all about
the vintage, for me it was about
preserving
and remembering them both
as I know them.
Bless you.