What do we do when people smile at us? We smile back!
So enjoy these photographs of families enjoying themselves - my response to this week's Sepia Satturday's prompt photograph of a laughing couple perched on a wall.
1971 - I am newly engaged and very happy. Here I am perched on the bonnet of my husband's car. He never allowed it again, but very thoughtfully protected both me and the car with a tartan blanket. You can tell this was the era of mini-skirts .
Two happy photographs of my mother Kathleen and her sister Edith (Danson). The sisters remained close all their lives. They both enjoyed fashion, and made their own clothes on a treadle machine (their house did not have electricity until 1958) and regularly went dancing at the Winter Gardens, and the Tower Ballrooms in Blackpool - where my mother met my father.
Still smiling - Kathleen and Edith in 1981.
Smiling still, even in wartime - my father and my aunt Peggy. the youngest of the three Danson sisters
My happy daughter c.1976 in a red knitted tank top (all the rage then), knitted by my Aunt Edith.
Happy schooldays - Me
And if you cannot be smiling on your wedding day, when can you?
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Sepia Saturday gives bloggers an opportunity
to share their family history through photograph
What a happy family...through the generations! I love seeing the mini skirt! What fun we had, making sure to cover what we could. I always love to see the outfits your mother and her sister designed for themselves!
ReplyDeleteWonderful happy photos of happy people! Way to go and a fine match to the prompt. :)
ReplyDeleteI am impressed that they made such clothes on a treadle machine. But then again that was easier than all by hand, I guess. Those mini skirts! Looking at them now, mine look like they should be blouses. LOL.
ReplyDeleteYou've chosen a wonderful collection of smiling people. I enjoyed the three photos of your mother and her sister. They confirm a theory I have that once people learn that special smile for the camera it repeats in photos for the rest of their lives. I think it often begins at an early age and I bet you could find more matching smiles in photos of your daughter and granddaughter when they are older. Your happy smile certainly fits that theory.
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