Family Resemblance (It’s In the Mouth)
Posted by Moose on June 24th, 2008. Filed under: Gene Pool.I never met my grandmother, Margaret. She died before I was born. But according to family photos, genes will out. We all have big smiles with big teeth, the better to eat big meals. Cousins were visiting from Minnesota last week and, while having a spirited discussion about lunch, my mom was pinned to her family tree. “You have a lot of Margaret in you….” Pause. “You’re always thinking about what to eat and where to eat it.”
My grandmother Margaret, smiling.
My grandmother Margaret, eating.
I feel a kinship.
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June 24th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
She’s so pretty! And I love the swamp she’s standing in. It looks very Southern.
You have a very pretty mouth. Wait, that didn’t come out right…
WELL YOU DO. THERE, I SAID IT. GET OVER IT.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Margaret look like a fun gal! I think she looks entirely lovely. Old photos are the best. Always.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Sweet pics. Margaret looks like she enjoyed life.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Those photos are awesome. She was so stylish and pretty! What decade are those from?
June 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I love old photos! Aren’t scanners the best invention ever?
June 24th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I really want your grandmother Margaret’s hair. And clothes. Any chance she left them all to you?
June 24th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Teej: I’m pretty sure these were taken in the ’30s. I say this because they were in the album before the wedding pictures and she married my grandfather in 1939. And then they had my mother in (ahem) 1967. Yes.
C&C: No scanners necessary! I just opened up the photo album, pointed my digital camera, and zoomed in. It’s a picture of a picture! That makes it art.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
NBB: Sadly, no. I would LOVE some of those ’30s outfits. I do have a dress from my great aunt Etta, circa 1918. Kind of like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooseinthekitchen/2607099703/in/photostream/
June 24th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Awww…lovely pictures! What a treasure to have them…and she looks like such an alive and vivacious woman.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I LOVE old photos!!
Also – I SEE THE RESEMBLANCE.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I love old photos! You get a glimpse of another life, another time in the land of the past. I love my parents old photo albums.
PS – don’t tell my mom but I have stolen a bunch of her pictures so that I can scan them and have them all to myself.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:23 am
You just get the sense from those pictures that she was a lot of fun to be around!
September 12th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
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