Another Blast From The Past...

I mentioned in the last post that I have been sorting through old pictures at my parents' house. I have been wanting to sit down with the many boxes of pics for years now.... and I have finally had the time this summer to start sorting through and scanning them. My parents have been giving me dates for the pics (amazingly my dad had dated about 80% of them) and have explained who the unknown people are in many of the pics. You never know what you will find when you pull out a handfuls of unsorted pictures. Many times I have found pictures from the 1940's mixed with pictures from the 1990's. I've discovered many previously unknown treasures in the boxes.... Like the picture of my sister Jodie discovering Santa had brought her a puppy... or the many pictures of my mother when she was a child. My sister Jenny cried when I told her that I had found a picture of her in a self-made Halloween costume (ET's girlfriend) that had won first place in a contest.

Well...... Many of you know that my family has a tradition of backwards pictures. It began when I was only a child in diapers and my father took a picture of me and (some of) my sisters standing on the beach... Our backs were to him as we blew bubbles into the wind. The picture turned beautifully and Dad instantly fell in love with it. A funny family tradition was born... and it was not long until pictures of us standing backwards at the Grand Canyon... Disney World... or the White House decorated the walls of my parents' den.

While scanning pictures I came across a real treasure........ A failed backwards picture. Our trip to Graceland was never memorialized on the family wall.... but I'll share it with all of you...