Month: April 2023

Genealogy, Photography

Grandpa Mert

Shelly
img025a I don’t think I’ve shared this one. I was going through some of my Flickr albums, because I realized I’d restricted the privacy on them when I didn’t mean to. I love this photo of my grandpa Mert. Those cheekbones! I think this had to have been taken sometime between 1948 and 1950.
Genealogy, Photography

Old Photos

Shelly
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I love this photo. The man in the middle is my great grandfather, Logan Louis Thompson. He and his friends are day drinking in Miami in 1925, so it was the height of Prohibition.

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He’s on the left, here.

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Left to right: Sterrett Pooser and Margaret Basquill, Nell Basquill and Logan Louis Thompson.

Margaret was my great grandma Nell’s sister, and Sterrett was Margaret’s husband. I feel like they all knew how to have fun.

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Margaret Basquill in Florida

I absolutely adore that photo of Margaret.

All of these came from scrapbooks Margaret and Nell kept. The last time I visited my grandma Jeanne, before she died, I scanned all Nell and Margaret’s old photo albums, and then I sat down at the kitchen table with grandma and went through them with her. I wish I’d asked more questions and taken better notes, but I’m grateful I was able to record what I did.

Journals, Photography

Another One Bites the Dust

Shelly
Another One Bites the Dust

I killed another pen. This one lasted four weeks and 52 pages. I have no idea why they’re so inconsistent. I only use them for actual writing, and my handwriting is pretty even.

These are all Zebra Sarasa Clip pens. I bought a package of five brown pens, so they all were purchased at the same time. They should be identical. The last two were used in the same notebook, so it isn’t a matter of more vs. less absorbent paper. It’s a mystery!