One True Love

Lets not skirt around it, that's a silly title.  But it's true.  There has been one major love in my family history that seems to strike at least one every generation.  That love is photography.  I love it.  My dad loves it.  Our ancestors have loved it.  We have so many pictures of family through the years that I feel like I personaly know each and every one of them.  We even have pictures of somsone's livingroom from the turn of the century - long before bored people turned the camera towards random crap in their home.  Can you imagine how much that cost - a picture of a rocking chair, a rug and a screen?  It's silly, but I still love it because it makes me feel closer to them.  When I was a kiddo I took SO MANY pictures of my room.  This picture of a poster of Dr. Evil will surely mean something to me some day down the line.  Nope.
But I've gotten away from my point.  Basically I've always been surrounded by pictures of the people I came from - on my dad's side at least.  Cameras weren't as popular in the Bahamas, I guess, or they were too expensive.  We don't have many pictures of my mom's side past her parents.
Since I don't have much news on the baby front except for the simple fact of NO BABY, here are some pictures of my ancestors as spotted on my Flickr photostream.  I'll do my best to name each one:

Phylis

Philys, younger

 

We have a lot of pictures of Phylis - wasn't she gorgeous?

I'm pretty sure Carl was heading off for WW1.

One of these dudes is Carl, too, but I'm not sure which.

And this, too, is Carl with my great Grandmother, his wife!

 

My great Grandma Louise at her wedding.  Check out that veil!

 

And here she is as a kiddo.  Folks say I look a lot like her.

My family keeps a lot of stuff, which is why I'm lucky enough to have held my great grandparent's marriage certifecate!

John Sweetser looking jaunty at his shop.

Is that a wolf or a coyote?  Who cares!  It's awesome!

 

Look at that hair!  And that kiddo on the bottom left is the same Carl that is also my great grandpa.

 

Adorbs.

Check out the scandalous swimsuit (from 1923)!

Carl in his band, somewhere in France during WW1.

My grandma and her mom.  Two gorgeous ladies!

And one more of Carl to round things out.

And this isn't a family picture, but it was stuck in with them and I think it's awesome:

I need to scan all my family's photos at some point - if only because these things wont last forever and I'd be so sad if something fell apart before I could save it digitally!

So that's my family (well some of them).  I'm thrilled that I'll be able to share them with the next generation.