On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:20:15 +0100, you wrote:
>A comment and a question: >- I think "John baby photo" is a great one. (My guess is that mother >is standing right beside the photographer making funny faces or waving >a favourite pet doll in order to evoke a smile from you.) My wife runs across that one every year or so. Makes her go ditzy and coo... she gets all motherly on me, which ain't a bad thing at all for a cozy evening... >- What do you call the the kind of fence or "corrall" in "Barbara >1947"? (Me and my sister used to have one too, and I got a few >pictures of me in one of those as well.) > 1947 was before my time, but I think it was called a "playpen." Nowadays they build fancy ones in sections that are called baby corrals. It is amazing how *few* family photos I've managed to accumulate, considering all the years of photo opportunities. I just finished digitizing three hundred or so from my wife's family, which I am laboriously retouching as time and interest permit. Artifacts in the background, like the playpen you mentioned, are interesting. Old cars, old toys, old furniture - all evoke a sense of history and the continuity of family life. -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com
