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Friday, 5 September 2025

Grassy Settings for Family Fun - Sepia Saturday

This week’s prompt photograph from  Sepia Saturday features friends enjoying  a picnic.  I have only one match of a picnic, but take a look at other photos of family enjoying themselves on grass.  

 

A 1950s  family picnic  with my parents, aunt,  brother  &  myself.   

   

In the back garden -  left my first photograph with my father, and right with my mother  and our kitten.  A pity no one thought to move the dustbin from the shot!  Late 1940s.  
 
 
In the same back garden, with my father enjoying a smoke. 
 
 
 My first photograph with my brother.
   
 
        
 At my grandparent's house with my grandmother , the rather frail figure with her three daughters, peggy, edith and Kathleen (my mother).  c.1940. 
                
                       
      The same garden.  lLttle me with my aunt a

 
 My parents  looking very smart - the occasion my graduation from Edinburgh University,  in 1965.

 
The family photogaph I took with me,  as I  set out for a year in the USA on a library exchange scheme, 196.
 
 
 
 Enjoying the sun on a break on Nantucket Island, Mass. USA 
 
Onto more recent times:   
 

1981 and the back garden of our home in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.  It is summer and this is my first attempt (and virtually the last)  at cooking on a barbecue, but my efforts fell foul of the weather - hence the umbrella. Did I really need that watering can there as a health & safety measure?       



     

Playtime in the garden for daughter  1975
 
 
Granddaughter bright eyed for her first day at school, 2012
 
 
 
                        
Happy landing on grass for granddaughter  
 
          
         
Practicing handstands on our front lawn  

 
Our dog joins in the fun , enjoying a long chew on the grass of our back garden in Hawick.  
 
 
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1 comment:

  1. Wonderful pictures of folks having fun every which way on the lawn. My favorite, however, has to be of you trying to BBQ under an umbrella. :)) Luckily, California's summer weather is a little more dependable.

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