I’m still struggling to find the right way to work on these old photos. Tom found a Mac-friendly version of the software that came with the old scanner that I can purchase. The company offered a free trial version, which I downloaded so I could experiment with it again. Only it won’t save high quality versions of the photos I edit–I guess they only allow that if I pay for it? Which seems counter-intuitive. If I were a new user, shouldn’t I be so dazzled by everything the software can do that at the end of fourteen days I won’t be able to live without it?
Whatever. The photo above is a rare one. As I’ve said before, my mother gave David and Debby the albums she created using most of her photos of them. So I have limited pictures of my siblings. This is Debby and her first husband, the father of her three children. It was taken in April of the year they married (in June). It occurred me at some point that many of Mother’s photos from that period were taken to send to my father, who was deployed in Korea. That was confirmed when I found this photo of a wall from his headquarters:
He was the Sergeant Major, and in this case, I feel certain he didn’t paint those signs. I know his work well, and these are not up to his standards of lettering perfection.
It’s possible that photo of Debby and her fiancé was one my mother sent Daddy to say: Here’s what your future son-in-law looks like. This is the man who’s STEALING YOUR BABY!
Maybe that’s why Daddy sent this one back to Mother:
I kid! My father and his son-in-law got along fine. Even if some of our spouses later became “outlaws,” giving my parents the grandbabies they adored meant we all stayed family.
Oh my goodness that is so funny. Probably in the later years it would have been serious.
Ha ha, maybe!