I don’t have many photographs from my childhood. Somehow, those moments were lived but not captured, or maybe just lost along the way. That’s why this one feels like a small treasure.
It’s the only picture I have with my grandmother.
I wish there were more pictures like this.
But maybe… this one is enough.
Ilze
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That is a wonderful picture Ilze! I wish I had one of that kind! Cherish it.
Thank you, Peter. I really do treasure it—maybe even more because it’s the only one 😊
Do you have a photograph you wish you had from your childhood?
Me being the first child of four my father has put quite some effort in making a photobook from my early days. The three other boys are more or less photograpic orphans 🙂 So yes, I do have a picture of this prawn-like creature that is me when five days old in the bath, my first steps outside, my first fall flat on the face (no, that’s a joke), me building a sand castle on the beach, and so on. The only pics I do not have is me together with any of my four grandparents. My granddad from fathers side died when I was three years old and I do not have any memory of him. But the story goes he was very fond of his first grandson, playing with me and singings songs. I would love to have had a photograph of me sitting on my ‘pake’s’ (Frisian for granddad) lap.
You are lucky!!!!!!
A photo to be always treasured, Ilze! 🙏🏻
Thank you, John. Yes… I got this from my cousin few month ago…
Do you have an old photo that brings back strong memories for you?
Yes, family photos from the 1970s!
What a great moment captured for you to enjoy.
Thank you. It really feels like a small window into a moment I can’t return to, but can still feel 😊
Do you ever look at a photo and remember more than what’s actually in the picture?
Sometimes with my childhood or photos with my grandparents.
Photos like that are true treasures, Ilze 🙂
Thank you so much. It really does feel like a treasure, even in its simplicity 🙂
What kind of photos do you find yourself holding onto the most?
My box of pictures overflows with pics of my son … adventures, birthday parties, school events, and later, sporting events… and of course, my grandchildren 🙂
Absolutely love the warmth and informality of yours! Russian bombers took care of all the ones we had . , , oddly enough some distant relative way back when gave me one taken over a hundred years back of my maternal grandparents, my mother at a very young age and two older aunties taken in St Petersburg – quite a treasure for me . . .
Thank you for sharing that—it must be such a powerful feeling to have that one photograph survive through so much. Yours truly sounds like a treasure with a long story behind it.
Do you find yourself imagining the lives and moments around that photo when you look at it?
Ilze – I live very much in the present and am always too ‘busy’ to think much of the past > for me it is ‘today’ and what is coming up tomorrow . . . the past has too many horrors in it anyways . . .
What a treasure.
Thank you. It’s small, but it holds a lot 😊
Do you have something simple that means a lot to you like this?
That’s so lovely.
Thank you so much 😊
Do you have a memory of your grandmother that always comes back to you?
Viena bilkde var atgriezt patikamas atminas.
Paldies, tieši tā… dažreiz viena bilde var izdarīt vairāk nekā vesels albums 😊
Vai tev ir kāda īpaša fotogrāfija, kas tev vienmēr atsauc atmiņā kādu sajūtu?
Man ir vairakas no ipasiem gadiem mana dzive.
A beautiful memory.❤️
This is treasure 🙂 I have no other pics…not yet!