Preserving the past.....

Don't you love digital cameras?
My daughter takes thousands of pictures of her two little girls. She can capture a fun moment, immediately download the pictures to her computer, shoot off an email, and Voila-I can share in the excitement. Her children will have well documented memory books, with plenty of pictures to choose from.

It hasn't always been so.
When I was really young, we had an old camera similar to this Brownie.

(Photo from Google.com)
Film was expensive to develop, the quality was quite inferior, and the pictures were in black and white! Our family wasn't rich and so at our house a roll of film might stay around in the camera from holiday to holiday. When you finally got your pictures developed, you might not even have any that you liked.

I don't have a lot of pictures to document my early years-but the ones I do have mean a lot to me. The picture at the top of this post is of my cousin, Kay, and myself at the family cemetery plot. In the background you can see an old car and some relatives standing around visiting (probably catching up on life's comings and goings). We are probably holding some iris or lilacs from our grandma's garden in little Mason jars filled with water.
Lots of history in that little picture.

But....
Notice the crumpled edges of the photo, the cracks, the glued on scrapbook paper, and the fading details?
I need to do some restoring to a lot of old pictures!

I also need to take care of all the thousands of photos that I have taken with my digital camera.
Kind of daunting to think about it, isn't it?

My blogging friend Marg has some great ideas on her post today about organizing family photos. You might want to check it out. After all, we all want to hold on to those great memories!

Have a great day tomorrow!

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-Author: Dr. Seuss

♥
JoAnn