As I am going to the UK, and I will be meeting miss diamond standard, although lately she seems happier sat in the back of a car… 
I thought I’d take some pics of the place with me to show her where I live and what it’s like here.
Its one of the areas in my life that I am totally unorganised in…Photographs.
I have them mostly lose in a black lock storage box, I have to rummage through all sorts to find what I want.
And in searching, I always get sidetracked.
“Oh look, there’s a photo of me when I was 16, darn I was slim then!”
“Aww.. theres a photo of Max, my first German shepherd bless him.”
“Ooh, heres some pics of my mother dancing in her troop, wow her legs went up to her neck I swear!”
“Ah yes, here’s one of my dear Nan when we went on that day trip.”
Snapping myself out of nostalgia and back in to the task in progress, It occurred to me that most of my photographs of friends and family are all posed, you know, on holiday or standing smiling in the garden etc.
Yet when we remember people in our lives, its not these poses we remember, we think of them doing ordinary things like memories of my grandmother baking, my grandfather digging in his garden, my mother knitting when she watched TV, yet I don’t have one of any of those things.
I suppose we don’t think to take photographs of mundane every day things, we only get our cameras out for holidays or special occasions, and the photographs we end up with are great memories, yet the way we remember the people are usually not connected to any of them at all.
I’ve been working on my mother’s ancestry for a Christmas gift for her, her uncle emigrated to Canada in 1925, after the passenger lists where I found his name on a ship from Liverpool to Quebec, he disappears, I can find no trace of him at all.
All we have is some photos that were taken of his house, theres some brief hand written descriptions on the back, one taken at Christmas says that the snow hangs around until April… maybe a clue to what part of Canada that is.
It would have been so nice if the photos had more details written on the back. All of them is with 2 ladies, and the writing on the back include the words... “Thelma and I”
We have no idea who Thelma was, maybe my mother’s uncles wife, daughter.. who knows, it doesn’t say. I wish there was more clues.
After feeling a little miffed that they hadn’t explained their photos properly, it occurred to me that none of mine do either!! 
And it got me to thinking… as I piled all my memories back in to the box,…
I wonder, if in many years from now, someone could be looking at me… at hour house, and saying…
“Oh I wish they’d labelled their photographs properly!”
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luneib
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Oct 31 @ 10:58AM
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Perhaps we should label our photographs.  I'm like you, well...I have some in photo albums but alot are just in boxes.
My Dad has since passed on several years ago but I still remember things he would do like when he would go in the basement and make a greeting card for my Mom, he loved doing things like that, plus, those things meant alot, it was from the heart.
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leprichaun_magic
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Oct 31 @ 11:44AM
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ah yes .. those memories are precious,,so many things change around us ,, thats one of the Reasons they have these wonderful "reminscing" therapy sessions in elderly care units ...you should see their faces light up... seeing old places ,,film stars ,, hearing Dance Music...its very rewarding :) 
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Blaiserboy
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Oct 31 @ 11:48AM
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I have not bothered to label any pics.... and I guess I should start.
I have many digital pics. too many to label, perhaps I can do it one at a time as I get them from the camera...
A great idea for a rainy Saturday afternoon.!!
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edthepoet
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Oct 31 @ 11:56AM
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If your not busy, could please label mind,lol
I have drawer after drawer filled with photo's.
ty god for computers and digital photography which makes so much better.
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snidegrass
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Oct 31 @ 2:34PM
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of cues and clues and hues and booze. and photos of photos of photos.
and of new inventions and detentions. the old british tv series, the avengers
with emma peel and john steed. when american went dry, the rest
of the world was soaking wet. thanks for the clues. now back
to hughes. hughes aircraft. etc. subsidiaries of love. monopolisitc love???
the anti-trust acts. trust me by jimmy carter. green trench coat commercial
for political trust division. now laugh with me at the peace and fun party.
an up and coming political party. also known as the partiers party. party
photos.
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misschoos
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Nov 5 @ 2:34PM
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As I am going to the UK, and I will be meeting miss diamond standard, 
We're going to have a fab time, but you know that already. 
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