Pix from the '60's

When I took Daddy to Lancaster yesterday, I spent a few minutes looking through a box labeled photos. Most of them were Bob's, but I found a few I brought home to scan.

I was a real fox when I was eleven or twelve, and I loved that Mondrian-style dress. It was one of the few fashionable garments I ever owned, although I never got the go-go boots that properly went with it.

By the time I got to 10th grade, I had really started to lard on the pounds. I can't remember whether mother or I cut my bangs this time, but I do wish I'd used a mirror as well as a comb.

Here's a picture of Mother and Charlotte taken in September 1969. Charlotte would have been about the same age here as I was in the photo up top. By September 1970, though, she had gone through a serious growth spurt as well as filling out. I'm also somewhat taken aback by Mother's wrinkles. She was only 38 here. She was quite beautiful, though. I wish she could have kept her hair more like that instead of perming it to death, and after she quit smoking, she gained a lot of weight.


That's all for now. I have a few more pictures, not many, from other times, that I'll try to get around to eventually. For example, I found my favorite turquoise-color squaw dress from when I was 5 hanging in the closet, and I also found a photo of me wearing it in my baby book. I need to do some kind of montage with that.