Over 200 New Looks at the Old Days

I've been away from Blogville for a while. I've been busy. As Autumn will testify, I occasionally have a spasm of scanning old photos into the computer, editing them, and then sending bunches of them out to those who might have interest in them. This bunch this past week included lots of portraits of my first wife, Shayne, of our 4 children, and of places we've lived and places we've visited since our marriage in 1975.

I found a few surprises in this stack of old photo prints. There were facial expressions I hadn't remembered, whole portraits I didn't recall seeing before, and pretty decent photos of old cars and lovely firearms that I'd not seen for a long while. Already, some of you who read this column have been the recipients of some of these pictures. Just in case I missed anybody, I'm going to include some of my favorites here tonight. They're pictures of people and things which are dear to me and which I want everyone to see and appreciate. That's sort of a typical human attitude, isn't it? We love some thing or some person, and we want the whole world to see how wonderful our beloved is. It doesn't always work, but we keep trying, don't we?

So here, in varying degrees of focus and glory, are some of my favorites from the more than 200 I put together several days ago.