Monday Photo Shoot

 

Here are two of my favorite pictures that look kinda alike, but were taken years, and years apart from eachother.  They are from my Grandfather's Website. 

No, I didn't take these myself obviously.  This is a picture of two of my children and myself.  It was taken back in 2001 when I was still a single mom, working 60 hours a week..  I was approached at a grocery store for a free picture at a hotel, so I dragged my two kids, and had them dress up in old fashioned clothes behind a curtain to get an authentic 1920's picture.  Of course, as you can probably tell, my son wasn't too thrilled.  I let my daughter Lizzy snag all the fake jewlery.  The photographer was impressed by my son's close resemblance to Robert Downey Jr.  Great.  Thanks--what every mom wants to hear!  Your son looks like a washed up celebrity druggie!  (Although, I hear Robert has really cleaned up his act NOW, but at the time of this photo, I think he was still in jail or in rehab.)  There is another picture, but it's stuck in a frame at home---I'll have to share that one later. 

The below picture is one of the few pictures I have of my late maternal grandfather.  It was taken back in the 1920's near Los Banos, California.  He is the man with the hat, standing next to his brother.  I never met this grandfather.  His brother and sister came to California via the Azores, he followed, although, unlike his sibilings he went back to the Azores where he met my grandmother.  Shortly after my mother was born, he died.  I don't know if you can tell by looking at this picture, but he was quite a character.  He wrote music and dances, and was quite well known.  There have been books written about him, and the street where my mother's childhood home stands was re-named after him.  How I wish I met the guy!