Memories shared

Some of my favorite things from Long, Long Ago.

Newborn babies! (This is close to the Sepia Saturday meme this week)

Retiring to North Carolina (2007) where friend Rosie (on left) and her husband lived. Then they moved to Washington state!

Going back to college to finish my degree in art (and then grad school also!)

One of the men I almost married...

The thrill of takeoff, Pan American from Miami, FL (I'm second from r. front row)

Marcellus Williams (Sun Bear) visited Tallahassee and shared on Indian Mounds near Lake Jackson

Muffin, the furry one

Cat toes, those little pink ones in the white fur.

 And not so long ago, but every single day now...

Living in Black Mountain, photo by joye ardyn durham

I'm submitting this post to Sepia Saturday...because I can't figure out anything to say about their photo this week.  I've very little interest in baby beauty contests!   (Except my own beautiful babies, and my grandbabies! Of course!) But check over there to see what others have come up with.

The baby looks like his....

When people first see a baby, they are struck by some similarities to an adult relative.  Many say that he looks just like his grandfather, because they both have very little hair.

I have found a few of the photos of my family, both before my own birth, and some of my own children's children.

Let's start with the older photos...the real sepia ones.

My grandmother, Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers.  Born in 1886, this might have been when she was 3 or 4 years old.

Her son, my father, George Elmore Rogers, Jr. Born in 1914, he was probably around 2 or 3 here.

Those eyes sure do look a lot alike in them, don't you think?

Baby sister of my fathers, Ada Mary, and her aunt.  Ada Mary didn't live to adulthood, but there's another baby who carried her name.

The same dark hair and penetrating brown eyes were carried forward by my baby sister, Mary. (I'm the blond holding her.)

Here I am in my 30's with my youngest son Tai ...around 3 months old.

One of those "tilting chairs" with Tai in it.

But the same photo of my middle son in one of those chairs can be confusing...

Russell is 11 years older than my youngest son.

I don't have a photo of my oldest son (Marty) as a baby, since I gave him many of his own photos many years ago. (I bet I have one somewhere, but it wasn't in my digital files.) I do have some photos of him as a father though further down.

Russell around 2 years old, above.

His little brother, Tai around 2 years old, below.  So glad they weren't children at the same time, or this mother would have had some confusion!  They did have different fathers, so I have to say the blue eyes of Russ are definitely different than Tai's brown eyes.

Tai recuperating from a bee sting.

Russell for his school pic around 1st or 2nd grade

My three sons, and the oldest, Marty, has a lot of resemblance to his father.

Marty on right, with his youngest child, sitting next to his father, Douglas, on the left.

 Marty's oldest, Michael, holding Marty's youngest, Cayenne.

Marty's son, William, on the left, then Michael, and Cayenne is cut off, while Marty holds her up.

I don't have one of those proof sheets of many pics of any of the babies taken at one time. But look over at ...
Sepia Saturday this week to see what others come up with.