A Gift of Photos

For this past Christmas, one of the coolest gifts I got was from my father. It was a CDROM of a couple hundred old photos from our past, digitized at high-resolution from old negatives and slides.

Here are some highlights from the 165 or so I uploaded to Flickr (although a number are limited to family and friends):

This is an image of the lumber company, Hall Lumber Company, that my grandfather owned in Flagstaff, Arizona. This must be from the late 1940s.

This is my Dad, wearing a conductor hat and bandana and blowing out a candle on a wonderfully-constructed train cake.

My Dad riding an old toy horse contraption in the 1950s.

This is an austere shot of my dad being held by someone over a dune at white sands, New Mexico (I assume).

This is a great, dark shot of my Grandmother (at left) with an aunt of hers. The image says it's from Patterson, which I assume is in Texas. I can't find a Patterson in Texas, New Mexico or Oklahoma.

This is my grandmother actually touching a Saguaro cactus (probably in Arizona).

My brother and me playing in San Diego in the very early 1980s. Great composition with me frustrated in the back and my brother with a "what a wuss" look on his face.

There can't be a cuter shot of my sister, my brother and me. Easter... probably 1981.

This is a blooming Century Plant (Agave Americana).