Shoot the old people

No, not that way, says Zoanna. Remember to take more photos of those important family members. A penchant for pens. When I go back and look at old photos, I'm so aware that when you only had 27 or 36 photos to a roll, you used them sparingly, and then perhaps didn't develop them until months later. Zoanna thinks that computer hard drives may be 100:1 kids to older relatives. No babies here to take pictures of, but if I were guessing buildings to people. . . it would be about that.

Here's one of my favorites of the "old folks at home,"--my grandparents with their nine children in 1972 (no date, but that would have been their 60th wedding anniversary). I used this on a family cook-book cover in 1993. Four in this photo are still living, and I sent them Christmas cards today.