A simple Thanksgiving dinner with family. This is as fancy as we get!
The plates and glasses are my mom and dad’s passed down to us. I believe they received them back in the early 1950s. It’s a very small way to have them share dinner with us.
A mess but it’s what we like to have for our Thanksgiving meal.
I hope everyone had a chance to spend the day or weekend if you were lucky with some or all of your family and friends. I can remember more than a few that we weren’t able to do that and are thankful whenever we can. Thanks for stopping by, Chris, Carol, and Tim.
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My mom Mary pictured here at NAS Jacksonville, Florida in the early 1980s.
Today is the 106th anniversary of her birth. She’s always in my heart.
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Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by, and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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From our trip to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure in March 2004. Good times!
Thanks for stopping by and have a fun day! – Chris
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Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by, and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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In celebration of my mom, Mary on this Mother’s Day 2022. She was born on September 10, 1916, at home on East 74th Street in Manhattan (just down the street from Central Park). She told me that the rooftops and streets of the Upper East Side were her playgrounds and the East River (yes, THAT river!) was where she splashed in the heat of summer. She would go on to become a secretary for some of the biggest corporations in America which were headquartered in New York. She would meet my dad (Paul) at the wedding of her best friend and fall in love with him at first sight. She married my dad on November 3, 1943, just a few blocks from where she grew up. During the war, she worked at Columbia University and would go on to receive recognition for her work on the Manhattan Project receiving a Silver ‘A’ Pin for her contributions. By the middle 1950’s she was a suburban housewife (not a bad thing to say then but if you said it today you’d catch heck) and be the best mom in the world to me… she was at every baseball game and at my school functions and she taught me the ropes of New York and life. My mom was the strongest person I knew… in less than twenty years she would lose the man she loved with all her heart and fight on to see me through those difficult years that came after. Sadly she left way too soon herself but her love of the City, of life, of adventure, and her courage, are with me today. My mom’s Kodak from 1938 and a host of images she took with it are special to me… my parent’s love of photography was passed down to me (foto DNA) and that remains an important connection to them.
If you’ve read this through I thank you… it is only a small gesture that I can make in her memory today.
Together at Jensen Beach, Florida (December 1976).
Just before I deployed to Japan for three years.
Las Vegas 1961.
My first camera and my mom is holding a recently taken Polaroid print.
Wishing everyone a very Happy Mother’s Day! – Chris
Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by, and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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We’re celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary today – here pictured with my best friend and wife.
At a New York Mets spring training game in Port St. Lucie, Florida (Spring 2015).Way back in 1973 – no we weren’t stoned.1980 – We’re just back from my tour of duty in Japan aboard the USS Midway. We lived in Yokohama.Retired from the US Navy in March 1997.
Thanks for stopping by! – Chris and Carol
Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by, and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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A “found” image from November 2014. We were lucky to have had her as our kitty from early 2003 to when she passed in late 2017. She was a rescue cat that we adopted from an organization known as Cat’s Angels here on Amelia Island. Both her parents were wild and although we met her as a young kitten she always had a bit of a wild streak in her to the very end which made her unpredictable and super fun. She was as soft as she looks in this “I want you to put down the camera and pet me shot”. We miss her bunches.
Carol and I would like to wish y’all a very Merry Christmas and the best wishes for a Peaceful and Safe New Year! Thank you for all of your support for our little blog. – C&C
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful and safe day! – Chris
Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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My heart remains forever broken. Please remember the little ones, their teachers and, administrators from that awful day.
They were just babies. I still cry just thinking about how horrible it must have been. The children, the families, and the first responders carry that sorrow forever. If only my country could be brave enough to do something about the proliferation of these types of weapons and to identify those people that need some type of mental health intervention. Never forget.
Known by many names, our beloved kitty Pirate doing one of the many things he enjoyed. Seen here “hanging out” in a cypress tree watching me take pictures. I turned the camera on him for this memorable pic. Sadly Pirate passed away in the Spring of 2018.
I choose this as my flickr pix of the day because someone favored it on my Flickr page and it brought back some sweet memories. Oh, some of his other semi-official names in the neighborhood and in our family… Pi-Pi and Pirate de Cat.
Pirate 2002-2018 One of the sweetest cats ever!
Comments are always welcomed as I’ve learned quite a bit from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by and while you’re at it, feel free to visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios hosted by Etsy). – Chris Whelan
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