A Picture Can Wake a Thousand Memories

Thanks to all of you who are playing my Caption Giveaway Game. You came up with some good ones last time. The hay bale had some of you thinking about that lost needle in a haystack. Kathy even mentioned finding gold. Since my grandson looks so happy, others of you had him feeling victorious and being king of the hay/straw/mountain/world. I liked Suzanne who said he might like being up high so much that next he would be trying mountain climbing.  With that kid, it’s possible. Ed came up with a Rocky victorious quote about gonna fly. I have to admit to never watching the Rocky movies but I have heard others talk about them. He does, for sure, have a victorious look. But my favorite caption had to be Connie’s when she had him thinking “It’s a great day to visit Grandma.” I always thought it was a great day when he came to visit. Loved spending time with my grandchildren when they were little and still do even though they are growing up fast. This kid is not far from graduating college now.

On to picture #3. My mother, if she had lived, would be celebrating her 100th birthday tomorrow. She always said she wanted to live to be 100, but she didn’t quite make it.  She did make it to 94, but the last few years were rough for her when her enjoyment of life was stolen by dementia. The picture for your caption suggestions is of her and her sisters. I’m guessing Mom, the one on the left, was around 60 when this picture was taken. That’s a guess and it could be a year or two off. I do know it was before the sister next to her and the youngest of the four was diagnosed with a rare cancer that took her first of the sisters. My mom lived the longest and oh, how she missed her sisters. Especially during those last years when she floated in time and was often a young girl in her thoughts instead of a ninety plus year old woman.

This has always been a favorite picture of mine because it was so like them when they got together. They were always laughing and telling stories about when they were girls growing up during the Depression years. They all married, stay married through thick and thin, and were all widowed. They were great mothers to their children.

Those stories they told about the people in their little community of Alton became the background for my Rosey Corner in Angel Sister.  It was a sorrow for me that my mom and the one aunt still living when I originally wrote the novel weren’t able to enjoy the book. My aunt had a stroke and died suddenly before the book was published and while mother was still alive when the book came out, she was no longer able to enjoy reading because of the dementia.

But tomorrow I can celebrate for Mom and wish she had been one of those blessed people who make it to one hundred years old still able to enjoy living. I can remember all the many good years I had with her. She was always there for me and for my sisters. Our best friend. Our biggest supporter. She loved us without measure and loved our children the same. She was a wonderful granny to them.  So Happy birthday in heaven to my mom. It could be she and her sisters are still laughing over those stories they loved to tell about being kids growing up during the Great Depression.

If you leave a comment on the post, you’ll get an entry in my giveaway. If you’ve left comments on the other pictures I posted last week, you get a new entry for your comment on his new picture. If you can’t think of a caption, any comment will get you an entry. Deadline to enter is midnight EST March 24, 2020. I’ll announce the winners on the 25th. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. No purchase or any requirement other than the comment is needed to be in the drawing. Two winners, picked by a random drawing, will get their choice of one of my books and a grab bag book.

So what caption would you give this picture of Mom and her sisters? 

As always thanks for reading.