It's Time to Relax - Sepia Saturday

This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph  features a young womam  enjoying lounging around in the sunshine.  I have the ideal match,  

 

The year is 1966; the place Nantucket Island  in New England; the occasion my year long spell  in the USA when I was on an exchange programme,  working in the Radcliffe Library in Cambridge Massachusetts.  With a friend we bussed from Boston  to Woods Hole on the tip of Cape Cod  to take  the ferry for a break on the island.  I loved New England - its history, its architecture,  its seascapes and landscapes.  It took me 30 years before I was able to return and renew my memories.  

 

 

 1965  and  the back garden of our home in Edinburgh .  Posing for a family photograph  before I headed off for my year in the USA.  My aunt Edith seated, with Mum on the grass, Dad on the lounger, plus my brother oblivious to it all! 

 

Onto the 1990s , and my husband taking a breaka from sightseeing  and walking.  Here outside our hotel in the Austrian Tyrol.
 

 

 

Here is my husband's father John Robert Donaldson taking a break from his work as a painter and sign writer, with an example of his work below.

 

A bill board in South Shields, County Durham, painted just after the Second World War with son Ian (right hand corner) who went into  the family business  by the side. The story went that because of a shortage of paper, it was painted directly onto the board.  Nowadays, amidst anti-smoking campaigns, this advert would be banned.  

 

And finally  - our pet cocker spaniel resting her short legs after all those walks.  

 

 

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