My Sense of Place Part Two

I was born May 23rd 1964.  Black and white photography was not a novelty then, it was the way it was because it was significantly less expensive than color.  It wasnt until the 70's that color became an affordable option for everyday photography. 

These pictures were taken at Christmas ( a holiday) with all my moms family present.  I was about 1 1/2 years old so 1966??? The interesting thing is the details in the photos like to color linolium flooring, the old clothes and shoes, the puppy slinky and the rockum sockum robots.  In the bottem picture, if you look just behind me you will see that big brown thing behind me.  I think it was the only heat sourse in the house.   Notice the fire place is covered or closed up.   Oh and the hair styles definatly date the photos. 

This is the first snow I ever remember in my life.  We lived so close to the Atlantic coast that it only snows like this about once a decade.  This was in the 70's.  On the left, me and the family dog a German Shepard pup named Ceazar.  This is the back yard, notice all we had was pine tree. The right is my mother playing in the front yard, just across the road (that you can not see) beyond the mail box, notice again a line of thick woods full of Pine trees. 

This is a picture of my daughter in 1985.  She would be flattered to know I added her to my blog but I am posting the picture to show the TV in the background.  HAHAHA, Notice that is still has dials to change the channel.  I think that big box on top of it was the first cable boxes.  Yes I was born about 15 years before cable became a big deal for everyone to have.  That is when MTV really was MUSIC television.  



The top photo is of the intercoastal waterway on the sound side of Emerald Isle NC.  It was the back yard from our 32 ft Camper.  I loved it there.  The bottem photo is me roughing it in the Kitchen of our camper.  It had a bathroom, a bedroom, a color TV with cable and the dock was right out the doors to the rear of the camper.  I sure miss that camper.   I think the helicopter flying in the air of the top photo is Pedro, a search and rescue copter from Cherry Point Marine corp base just about 30 miles down the road. 

My now ex husband and I both worked at Sprint at this time and we made great money!   This was the time of excess in my life and for all that we had, I wanted to pack it all up to live in this camper that was smaller than 1/2 of the  2 car garage at our 2000 square foot house.  When I think about the stress we lived to maintain that lifestyle and the fact that although we could afford the big house and the waterfront camper on the Island.  We rarely had time to enjoy it.  What a waste!