Day 13: My House in August "Photograph"
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6 years agoThis is Linderhof -- built in 1920, picture taken in 1924. Love the fact that a former owner shared the picture with me.
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Comments (44)I'll play. I'll try to catch up on the other photos on the appropriate threads. With the exception of the immediate photo below (you'll guess why I'm including it), I'll try to keep this to my new build, not my current legal residence. Juvenile venison, he/she seems to have a twin, too. Connecticut, yesterday. Cannas plants. I planted them late, but they seem to be thriving on the southeast area of my future home. Massachusetts. These ones will be vibrantly red, probably starting this week. A few weekends ago, I had house guests up at my future home. That red dot is their drone, with which we had fun....See MoreDay 8, My House in August: Living Room
Comments (32)What a fun thread! My mother spent several years pointing out whenever she dropped by that my house is very comfortably arranged for a pair of hermits (yes, we are) but it lacks a seating area that would encourage congregation and conversation. DH and I just smiled and agreed with her. But when an extremely heavy friend planned to visit over a long weekend, I took the comment more seriously and decided a seating area was needed that would accommodate a very large person comfortably. The living room is long (22 ft) and narrow, with a 12-ft window on one long wall and a stacked stone fireplace and large built-in bookcase filling the other. We have to have a place for plants in front of the window (outside of which is a wonderfully private backyard) with enough space there to be able to close the curtains against the strong afternoon sun. Okay, I finally shot my bolt; bought love seats, pillows, and a rug; and probably will never do anything like it again. The guest, darn it all, got sick and will have to visit another time. But DH and my brother both like it (actually, they both expressed an unflattering degree of surprise that they do like it), and now Mom has a comfortable place to sit while she points out what I should do with the rest of the house, beginning with finding more items to display on the top shelf of the bookcase....See MoreDay 15-My House in August: Green
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Comments (26)Bumbebeez, I am very sorry to hear of the loss of your dog. I really don't have good photos of our BR. These are after repainting last summer. I had planned on BM Stonington Gray but I gave the painters the wrong gallon, so we have BM Nantucket Fog! Oh well, I think the Nantucket Fog is probably a nicer color anyways, and I sold the unopened gray paint on Nextdoor. I bought the Lexington white BR furniture when I was single, and I paid good money for it. So, yeah, I'm sure not DH's first choice. So, I have the paisley bedding that is a little less feminine. The iron headboard we got after we got a new mattress. I never ordered the Seaside headboard because it was really big. Needed to include kitty pics, too! Here is the guest room that I also posted on the "green" thread. It is also a cat room. I do not use the Marimekko bedding for every day. I have another coverlet. I posted yesterday we are thinking about giving up the guest room to make it more of a music room or else a workout room. Walls are SW Celery....See Moreraphaellathespanishwaterdog
6 years agoCzarinalex, we also have some pics of two previous houses that we restored from unmortageable, uninhabitable wrecks to their former glory, but unfortunately I don't have many good 'before' pics - just the afters. Will try to dig something out!
The ones I'm posting for now are a couple of old photos I found when clearing out my late parents' house a couple of years back.
The first is my Mum and her brother when they were toddlers in the early 1930s....how cute? DH says they look very Mabel Lucy Attwell :)
The next one is my Mum's dad and his elder sister with their parents, taken in about 1912.....
Finally, my proudest pic - DS when he was made Head Chorister at our Cathedral thirteen years ago......
OutsidePlaying
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoA couple of my favorite photos. The first was taken in approximately 1905 and is of my great-grandparents and grandparents and their assorted family members. Great-grandparents are in the center, holding a photo of a deceased son. My grandparents (my grandmother was pregnant with her first child, my aunt) is on the far right. My great-grandmother also kept horses and boarded riders who rode the stagecoach route between Cincinnati and New Orleans. At one time there was a telephone switchboard in the house. The land is still in the family but the house is gone. According to family members the house was built around 1865.
The next is an aerial photo that was taken where my DH grew up in Ohio. The old house was Civil War era and also has since been demolished. He left and so did his brothers, and his parents sold the property in the 80's and moved to Florida, tired of farming.
DH's parents wedding. Quite fancy for their day.
Bonnie
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThis is the New Hampshire house my dad grew up in, which was built in 1900 by his grandparents and later gifted to his parents (my grandparents.) This is how it looks now:
What a walk down memory lane! I am putting together very old photographs for the archivist at the Nickerson Family Association in Chatham, MA. My family came to Cape Code in 1637 and William Nickerson founded Chatham. It is a fascinating family history and the family association is one of the largest in the US. I'm 11th generation.
http://nickersonassoc.com/genealogy/william-nickerson/
This is how the house looked when my grandfather was a child. He is sitting on the porch with his beloved Boston Terrier. Little Mark grew up to become quite the keeper of the family records and photographs:
Fast forward to me on the porch as a toddler. I lived with my grandparents for a while when my mother became quite sick:
The house across the street (Aunt Em's Cottage) was always in the family and my parents bought it upon the death of the last relative to live there:
And in later years when we owned it:
And the house on my most recent trip North:
gsciencechick
6 years agoThanks for starting us off, arcy_gw. What great stories!
I have had this corner stand for a long time, and it took awhile to find something in a style that I liked.
Anyways, top shelf is our wedding photo, and then on the middle shelf niece in Army photo, father in WWII Navy photo, and in far back my grandparents (mother's parents) wedding photo. I am clearly not a photographer!
nhbaskets
6 years agoMy grandfather was a tailor and ultimately opened a dry cleaning business in the city we live in. This is a pair of photos I had reproduced from tin negatives that a local historian had. The one on the left shows his delivery drivers lined up with their fleet of vehicles in front of his shop.
Close up of my grandfather (4th from left) with his drivers. He was a little French man who came to the US from Sherbrooke. Wish I had the opportunity to have met him, but he died right before my parents were married in 1948.
After he died, my grandmother and aunt moved into a sheep farm with a friend. I use to love to visit the farm to see the baby lambs. This is a photo I had enlarged from a photo taken at the farm in 1960. Love how the sheep look like they are lined up for a group photo. Sorry for the glare!
dedtired
6 years ago
This is is a photo of a dragonfly that I bought at an arts fair. It hangs in my den. The colors are more vivid IRL.
I could fill the entire forum with old family photos. Some are interesting. Above is a photo of my sister and me. I am the baby. She always said I looked like an egg in this picture Sadly, she died of cancer at age 51, which was 25 years ago.
Bonnie I did not realize you live in Chatham. I have visited there several times and once had drinks with a friend and ran into one of her friends named Nickerson. Lots of Nickersons there! I rented a cottage on White Pond ( not one of those Pilgrim Village places). Say hi to Marions Pie Shop for me. Sigh.
Bonnie
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aprilneverends
6 years agowow what a thread
I don't know why but I have tears in my eyes. Reading everybody's stories and memories..
I'm a bit hesitant to put photographs up..I always make plans but in the end something stops me..
Let me show you my late Grandma though. When she was young. We share a lot of resemblance, in many ways..even though I swore to myself not to be like her when I grow up..:)
but I understand her a lot better now..or so I think..
year 1928
and that's me
(not 1928 but not now either lol. approximately her age when she had her photo taken)
gsciencechick
6 years agoBonnie
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Sueb20
6 years agoAt our beach house...sorry some of these are weird angles to avoid glare.
Two of my kids walking along the beach.
This is by the door -- I took the pic at a farm on vacation years ago.
An Etsy find.
Pic DH took from our hotel balcony in Miami a few years ago.
And from another hotel balcony.
Lars
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHere's a family portrait that my family members hang, although I do not display it in my own house:
From left to right: DB Mike, DS Karen, DB Kevin, and me (in the black tank top). Photo was taken at my sister's house in Austin in April, 2001. I do not have any more recent than that.
I have an autographed photo of Marc Singer (in Beastmaster costume) in my bedroom; I bought it at ComiCon in San Diego, I think. The only other photographs I have in my house are on calendars - one calendar is of exotic cars and the other is of Roman gladiators, which I bought in Rome. I do have this poster featuring one of my roommates at the time in San Francisco mid 1970s:
Her name was Valerie; she is on the floor on the left, and she gave me this flyer. She was working as a model at that time and was photographed for the cover of Eerie Magazine as Spider Woman. A photo of me was featured in a San Francisco calendar for 1982 - I was between June and July. I never got a copy of the Eerie Magazine, although I have looked high and low for it. Perhaps it never got published.
Here's the "Beastmaster" photo:
Here's how the family homestead in central Texas looked circa 1870:
This is the house where my father was born. In 1932, my great-grandfather and grandfather tore it down and built the house where I grew up. I never met my grandfather because he died a couple of years before I was born.
jakabedy
6 years agoI've really enjoyed reading the stories and seeing the photos.
I've got some great old family photos, but most are boxed up right now. I did find this one, which is of my mom and dad either shortly before or after they were married in 1960. The plane was my grandpa's. It was a 1949 Ryan Navion that was later passed down to my dad.
My parents separated in 1980, to later divorce in 1981 when I was 15. My brother was only 3 at the time, and has no recollection of ever living together with mom and dad. My mom gave me their wedding album years ago, and when I had 20+ years of family slides digitized a few years ago, my dad had me send the link to him at a seldom used email. He wanted to be able to go through and cull them for things that might hurt my stepmother's feelings. It's as though that whole family that existed for fifteen years -- the intact family of my childhood -- has just been washed away. I'm really the only one who has those childhood memories, so I'm the only one with interest in the photos of them together.
LynnNM
6 years agoSuch great stories! This is a favorite photo of my sweet dad, my sister and myself (right). Dad used to sing to us all the time as we were growing up, and through him we acquired a great love of music, from Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, show tunes, to the Beach Boys, and the Classics. Thank you, Dad, for that beautiful gift!
LynnNM
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pamghatten
6 years agoEveryone's stories are wonderful! I have been designated the family historian, and my great-grandfather was an amateur photographer .. I have a photo of him somewhere with his head in one of those big old camera's with the cloth over his back. Thankfully, my grandmother was the real historian and went through many of the old photo albums and labeled people and places. She was born in Worcester, MA in 1901. I have hundreds of photos, when I retire I plan to organize and digitize many of them.
Here are some in an album where she labeled:
The 2 smaller pictures are my grandmother as a child, the larger one is my Mom as a child.
And pictures of my Dad in uniform and as a child (hand colored):
Last, but not least, my Mom (small picture) and my 2 sisters and myself as children:
bothell
6 years agoA day late but I would like to share. This is a photo of my husband's grandfather. He was a cavalry officer under czar Nicholas. When everything fell apart under the czar, he & his wife with 3 small children fled east across Russia to Japan & eventually the USA.
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6 years agoAlso late, but I too would like to share one of my favorite photos. My dad made the frame for his 1920s image of a Hopi basket maker.
Oh, and one more. I took this photo in Fowey, Cornwall a couple of years ago. I loved how the Wellies were all lined up!
caroline94535
6 years agoOne of my favorite photos of Harry. The quote pretty much summed up his life's attitude (except when hunting.)
He was running past me when I snapped this photo, so he's blurry. This stays on my chest of drawers; I have a different photo on my writing desk.
czarinalex