(Mostly) Black and White Memories

Hi there!   Say, I really appreciate all of your 'yay' votes  re. comments' setting on my last post.  You guys are the best!

I'm tickled to join with Terri's nostalgic meme, Black and White Memories…. or as I like to think, a return to chalkboards, #2 pencils and Show and Tell.

My momma with her grandmother and mother  

Like that splendid song lyric goes, "It must have been cold there in my shadow … you always walked a step behind" … I'm reminded of my sweet mother, how she always put my dad and me ahead of herself.  Silly, trivial memories:

… Mother preparing something called a 'mustard pack' for my dad's chest on those frigid nights he'd return from 3rd shift outpost.

… Rubbing my chest with Vicks Vap-o-Rub, wrapping my throat with a soft blanket remnant, then preparing stove-top 'honey milk.' (or a 'get-well milkshake'  Ha!)

Hard-wired for courtesy, not once did I hear her complain.

A modest sort, she never sought the limelight.  But in her later months whenever we'd wheel her chair around the care facility, she'd always point with obvious pride to her likeness on the wall -- a mural of residents' faces aboard a school bus.

This week it's her turn to shine!

Some of my treasured photos.

Evelyn Myra Hanson (1915-2004)

I still have those tiny leather shoes!

With her parents at their little farm in southwest Minnesota

I wonder if that wasn't the first pedal car … lol

Girls just want to have fun!

Graduation from nursing school, St. Barnabus, Minneapolis.  (Middle row, left.)

When Mother recalled the starry night they (graduates) marched into the church, each holding a candle … why, her face just shone!

Despite growing up on a farm, my mom wasn't particularly wild about animals, certainly not fishing … so I'm guessing young love can make one do just about anything!

WWII sweethearts (Fort Lauderdale)

 Newlywed, first home in Columbia Heights (Minnesota)

Los Alamos resident badge.  I believe it was the mid-50's when the front gates came down, but until then these badges were necessary to enter the city.

ca. 1954

Obviously, not a black-and-white -- but I can't look at this and not laugh.  On the back, Daddy wrote: "Gibraltar: Evelyn with Barbary ape (on the left)"

Another 'not black/white' but this is my all-time favorite photos of she and I, and precious Caraleigh,

For the good times!

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Thanks for accompanying me on this week's sentimental journey!

Smile ... stay safe!

Hugs,

Myra