Photo: Noel, me, and our baby Miriam, posing for a photo (using the timer) in our back yard in Haslett, Michigan (early 1974)
We were young and we were beautiful. We had moved from Melbourne to Michigan, and Noel had a scholarship to undertake graduate degrees with the Dairy Science department of Michigan State University.
The falling 'snow' in this image has appeared magically - and I don't know how to get rid of it. I'm pretty sure that I would not have stood in falling snow with my baby so exposed. I had seen snow once before going to USA. I had done a tourist bus trip to Mount Kosciusko and the Snowy Mountains when I drove from my home in Brisbane, to Melbourne, to study midwifery.
Every photo has a story. If I were to show this pic to our daughters they would guess the details. Our sons may not. I wonder if anyone will value this, and the many other pics, some of a lesser quality, when I am no longer able to tell our stories?

No comments:
Post a Comment