Take them while you can.
Maybe this isn’t really relevant today since everyone takes
pictures of just about anything with the advent of camera phones, tablets and low-cost
digital cameras.
But in my time, not all families had cameras. And those that
had were not so free in its use because (and I am dating myself here) it was
the type that used rolled photographic film which had a limited number of
exposures. I remember that it was a luxury to get a roll of film with 36
exposures.
So when I looked for a picture of our basic family unit (before
everyone upped and got married), the only one I found was taken decades ago.
The most recent one I could find was missing a family member because it was
taken when all five siblings came together --- to bury our father.
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| The last time all five of us sisters were together was when everyone came home for Daddy's burial. |
Just recently, my daughter asked for a family picture for a school project. Easy enough, I thought until I found myself looking through several folders before I found one of all three of us. That’s because her Dad and I take turns taking shots.
