Ephemera
When I was in Montreal for Easter last weekend Mesh and Grandma gave me many boxes of Grandpa’s 8mm and super 8 films, a film projector, and a couple boxes of 35mm slides. There are lots more slides, but Mesh is still sorting through them. I said I would digitize everything.
I picked one film at random, and it said (in Mesh’s handwriting), “1973 Apr. Coreen driving off. Cats. The twins with grandma (kissing and smelling a flower on the stairway).” It was strange to see me and Christine when we were three years old. And Grandma was 33 years younger too. We were wearing some of those dreadful matching twins outfits. Red with a blue and white stripe, I think. They were awful.
Some of the slides have mildew on them. I guess I should try to wash it off. I hooked up my scanner and scanned in one small box of slides. I am amazed at how beautiful Grandma is in these pictures! It seems to me that I have always thought of her as an old woman, even in my earliest memories. I guess everybody has their own lives, separate of your impressions of them. I made a web site for these slides: http://www.floatingeye.net/ephemera/
I just remembered that Victor said he had some slides at his house that Mesh wasn’t aware of. I’ll have to ask him about that.
This is a new set up. It looks very classy. Truly enjoy looking at your pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by ct — April 24, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
I’m glad you enjoy them 😉 I scanned in another small set of slides and I’ll put those in the gallery later tonight. Mesh didn’t like these slides at all and wanted me to throw them away! They are slides Grandpa bought of the Hungarian royal crown. They aren’t pictures of the family, and they aren’t even taken by Grandpa, but I still think they are interesting.
Comment by michael — April 24, 2006 @ 5:41 pm