I'm starting a picture thread

[LaurenG]

I think that everyone should start one at least once. My husband has been helping me go through some old records that my mom gave me when my dad died last year. This picture is one of the things he found. I'll let you guess which one is me. lol (I do NOT remember ever seeing this before)! Ok what do you have to share?

[Shine]

1. Great shot, OB!

Here's my DIVA pix, taken on my 41st bd last year.

[LaurenG]

3. Now I really like that picture

That is a true DIVA with an attitude. High Five!

[Shine]

18. We are Divas together, my dear.

thanks for the compliment, though.

[flvegan]

8. Whoa! And that's a "whoa!" on two counts...

One...the pic. Nice.

Two...the sig. Nice.

[Shine]

19. Thanks, friend.

[WCGreen]

10. Abs of Steel.....

[Shine]

20. yeah, that was back when I was in training shape.

things are a bit different nowadays...

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I... uh...

uh...







DAY-um!

[Shine]

81. uh.....blush.

[Wetzelbill]

68. wow, seven minute abs really does work!

Damn, you look great!

[Shine]

82. heheheh. babe, those abs took a lot longer than 7 min.

thanks for the compliment, though. I'll take it.

[Wetzelbill]

83. just giving credit where credit is due

[Guava Jelly]

84. go to the gym much??

nice abs

[Shine]

101. I used to.

I'm recovering from a psoas muscle strain in my left hip, and haven't been able to walk without pain for a while, unfortunately.

It's been a couple of months since I've worked out regularly and I feel totally out of shape. Sigh...

The good news is I'm getting better, slowly but surely. I'll get back into the gym eventually...

Thanks for the compliment, though.

[Cannikin]

2. Lil ole me

[LaurenG]

4. You are adorable

and hot.

[u4ic]

32. You're a handsome man, Cannikin!

[tjwmason]

51. Good to see your pic here again.

Damn hot, as always.

[miss_american_pie]

5. I post this one all the time

because it's my favorite



And I guess you're the one crying in your pic.

[LaurenG]

6. It's a great one with your beautiful child.

I'm the one with the huge bow with my eyes all squished shut. I have no clue what that was about.

[miss_american_pie]

7. That is quite a bow.

That's okay. We're not responsible for how our mother's dressed us.

[shanti]

15. awww, that's so cute!

[Maddy McCall]

27. Precious!

[RetroLounge]

112. Dayum!

Just. Uhm. Wow...

RL

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Same old me:

[LaurenG]

54. You take great pictures

You too are a handsome man.

[rhino47]

99. Starbucks is one hot smart looking hunk of manhood.

His 1000 watt smiles is smoking. he knows speakers too ! I got the Klipsch by the way.The 2.1s.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

111. LMAO, thanks!

[bigwillq]

11. This is me:

I like your pic OhioBlues!

[LaurenG]

55. I love this picture of you

You look genuinely happy!

[LeftyMom]

12. I haven't posted this in a while

This is (from left to right) me, my mother and my sister at my Mom's wedding.

[u4ic]

33. I LOVE that dress, Leftymom!

Your mom looks like a great lady.

[LeftyMom]

38. Mom's something else

Her wedding was great fun. We started the party about two hourse before the ceremomy, broke for a few minutes so she and Tim could get hitched and then went back to partying. LeftyKid ran around in his costume because it was on Halloween. This is him that night:

[u4ic]

41. What a cutie!!!

LeftyKid is just adorable! He's got the most incredible blue eyes.

I love unconventional weddings! A few years ago, I went to a costume party wedding on Hallowe'en. The bride and groom were Antony and Cleopatra.

I went as a 1940's babe, and my ex went as Fagin. You could just come as you were, in jeans if you wish...a very laid back, incredibly fun wedding.

I your mom and her new husband will have a long and happy life together.

[LaurenG]

56. I like this picture of you too!

You'll have to post some of those pics you were talking about in that other thread sometime!

[PittPoliSci]

13. sniffing the blossoms

last summer

[MiniMandaRuth]

16. Two words:

Hot geek.

[PittPoliSci]

105. hey thanks!

[LaurenG]

57. Caught in the act of sniffing the blooms!

That really is a great picture, what kind of tree were you smelling and I can't quite make out the words on your shirt, what does it say?

[PittPoliSci]

104. i think it was an apple tree

I'm not entirely sure. I was wearing a Pogues shirt it says "If I should fall from grace with God"

[shanti]

14. i love yourfamily picture!

here's mine - one of my very favorites:



this is me and my youngest son in jamaica in 2004.

[LaurenG]

87. That is a wonderful picture

A once in a lifetime shot I'll bet. How nice that you had a great vacation with your son.

[Ptah]

17. Pops. 1942

[Maddy McCall]

26. I love that photo.

The greatest generation.

[LaurenG]

58. I love these photos!

We have one of my dad (army) he looks so young, like yours. I am amazed at the things that generation endured and never complained about.

[LaraMN]

21. I love old pics! Very cool! Here's a favorite of mine, taken by

my favorite photographer (my then three-year-old.)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. Oh yeah!

[gmoney]

34. Can I be your second favorite photographer?

This model aspires to have legs like LaraMN

And yes, it is MY picture... I took it at least.

[LaraMN]

70. Of course you can!

and NICE pic! I see you're keeping busy. What a rough job!

[LaurenG]

59. This always makes me think of a still out of a movie

You are such a beautiful woman. Btw your child takes better pictures than I do!

[LaraMN]

71. Thanks!

She often takes better ones than I do, as well.

[Maddy McCall]

24. Two old family photos. My grandmother, who passed on last year...

This is my maternal grandmother, who passed away last year.



My paternal grandfather, my brother, me, feeding my Pawpaw's goats in 1972:

[u4ic]

35. Your grandmother

was an exceptionally beautiful woman. She has such a warm face.

Looks like you had some great times with your grandparents.

[Maddy McCall]

50. She had beautiful skin...

Even as an elderly woman, she was beautiful, inside and out.

Yes, I loved to visit both my grandmother and my grandfather. Good times, indeed.

[LaurenG]

60. Maddy do you resemble your grandmother?

I have always visualized you looking similar to her but of course modern day. She was such a beautiful woman, her spirit just radiates warmth. I love the goat picture as well.

BTW, I was the kid with the big bow making the weird face. I'd never seen that picture before and I couldn't stop laughing. Who knows what I was thinking but it sure screwed up the nice family photo. lol

[Maddy McCall]

25. Ok, I'm guessing that you are the little blonde holding her nose...

second to last on the front row.

that is a cool, cool, cool old family photo.

[hfojvt]

28. I really like this one

How long ago did you say yours was?

[LaurenG]

61. Hey, great pic!

I think that picture was about 1960. It was all of my cousins, uncle, aunt and grandparents.

[northofdenali]

29. A Fairbanks, Alaska traffic jam:

Just because I have a **BRAND NEW COMPUTER** (thank you, sweet spouse) - I'll post another!

Me and my "summer" ride.........

[u4ic]

36. LOL Love those pooches!

That's a verrrrrrrrry nice bike.

Any preference for either or?

[northofdenali]

43. Love my bike - 01 Roadstar, runs like a bat outta hell.

Totes all my gear, runs in cold, wet, hot, dry, name it weather, doesn't do awful on gravel (the perpetual road repair substance of on-road Alaska) -

puppies like it cold!! They really don't like to run above zero, it's too hot for them. But they'll do their best and if you fall asleep at the "wheel", you don't tip the whole rig over! (usually)

[LaurenG]

62. It looks like you have a way around no matter the weather

That bike looks HUGE! I noticed you said it handled nicely. That is a great pose too!

[Whoa_Nelly]

30. Haven't read all the posts, but

are you the one with the glasses??

Me, age 8

[u4ic]

37. Red hair, freckles and a cute little nose

You were such a doll, Whoa_Nelly!

[Whoa_Nelly]

40. Thanks, u4c! Here's me growing up!

At 16



At 28


And with granddaughter

[u4ic]

42. And you just kept on getting more and more gorgeous!!

The last picture is so sweet...did you not also post a picture with your baby at one point? I remember it was such a touching picture.

[Whoa_Nelly]

45. This one?

This is me with my son at age three months. He's the father of the darling granddaughter




And he's also the father of the sweet baby grandson

[u4ic]

48. Yes...they both struck me

so tender...what beautiful pics!

[Heidi]

44. We could have been sisters!

Heidi, age 8

[Whoa_Nelly]

46. Any Irish and/or Scottish in you dear Heidi?

Am sixth generation out Irish, and third generation out Scottish.

[Heidi]

47. .

Irish, German and Cherokee.

[Wetzelbill]

69. omg, that is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

Little Heidi!

[Heidi]

75. I wanna see little Bill.

[Wetzelbill]

76. last woman that said that

ended up hitting me with a restraining order.

NO, just kidding! Don't need that rap on me.

I do have a few pics from when I was little. No scanner or anything though. I need to find the one when I'm eating cookies and have chocolate all over my face. It's precious. Too bad I grew up to be a jerk, but still.....

[Heidi]

78. Did someone say you were a jerk?

Lemme at 'em.

[Wetzelbill]

80. well now that you mentioned it

I could put together a hit list.

[LaurenG]

63. You do look like you could be Heidis sister!

I love your timeline... up to your grandchildren. Such beautiful pictures!


I was the brunette with the bow and weird squishy expression.

[u4ic]

31. We had that tv too, OhioBlues!!

I love old b&w photos of my family...they are few and far between.

[LaurenG]

64. It's the same TV my other grandparents had too!

I agree, old photos are fun especially when a lot of those in them are no longer here.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. I'm guessing you're

the girl on the right, with the bow in her hair and a decidedly blue expression on her face.

[LaurenG]

65. Yes you are right

I have no clue why the bow or that "face". I thought it was so weird that I just couldn't stop laughing at it. No wonder I'd never seen it before, it was one of those "grandma" didn't brag about. lol

[GoddessOfGuinness]

113. You were a cute kid!

[u4ic]

49. dupe

[0007]

52. There was an old lady that lived in a shoe, she had so many children

she knew what to do!

[LaurenG]

66. Well there were 4 generations in that room and

lots of cousins etc.

[0007]

79. Nice looking family!

[Clintmax]

53. Here's me!

With my new car!

[LaurenG]

67. And your baby!

I just love this picture. You just look so on top of the world!

[Burma Jones]

72. Here's a few

Me at Thanksgiving


My paternal Grandmother


Me hearing thunder


My Mom and her family - Mom's the youngest - in green...

[LaurenG]

89. Your pictures are wonderful

What cute child you were and your mom was a living doll. I thought the one with your grandmother in the cart was fascinating. I'm glad you shared those.

[Heidi]

73. Little Heidi and Little Call Me Wesley:

Call Me Wesley, about 10


Heidi, about 6

[Wetzelbill]

77. CMW and I had the same hairdo at that age

Good thing you live in another country Heidi. I think posting that much cuteness is illegal in the U.S. nowadays. At least in the lower 48, anyway.

[LaurenG]

91. How very precious!

CMW looks very wise for his years and you are adorable, the kind of child you just want to hug.

[Heidi]

100. He's the smart one.

I'm the cute one.

You were a sweet one, too, OhioBlues. I love that photo, and I hope that the little blond girl on the left finally learned how to "sit like a lady."

[LaurenG]

102. roflmao

Actually she did. She is the sister I thought CrazyG might be interested in. She was the most prissy person I had ever known when we were kids. Always perfect, and smart.

[Heidi]

103. Oh, my lawd.

I have a single little sister, but I love Crazy too much to even _go there_ with the matchmaking thing.

[Oeditpus Rex]

106. LCMW looked like

Tanner Boyle from "The Bad News Bears."

Image

[Call Me Wesley]

107. Ha ha!

You wish!

But I have to dissapoint you. I never played baseball. And the shirt I wear on the pic (I remember it well), was my 'Spiderman' shirt. Not:

[Oeditpus Rex]

109. Since you're a furriner

I'll forgive your gross indiscretion.

[Call Me Wesley]

110. Dodgers, dodgers, dodgers!

[Bucky]

74. Monkey palming his ball

[LaurenG]

92. Not one of your monkeys I hope

[Ava]

85. here is a picture of my PaPa before he went to vietnam

These pictures are of my Papa("paw-paw" yeah, i'm from the south) and his buddie in a photo booth a few days before leaving out for the Vietnam war. I love these photos, and i must say, my Papa was a good-looking soldier!




btw, he's one more Vietnam vet against the Iraq War!

[LaurenG]

93. He certainly was a very handsome guy

he looks charming as well. Great shots.

[Guava Jelly]

86. Heres one of me taken when i was 4-5 years old

Me and my 4 older sisters

[LaurenG]

94. What a cute kid, the little brother!

I feel a little sorry for you with all those females to contend with but I'll guess you knew lot's about getting along with girls.

[Guava Jelly]

98. You aint kidden

Taught me how to respect women..and that yall can be crazy at times..
One plus is i never had to wear handme downs..
we were dirt poor.

[alarcojon]

88. Hey everyone!

Here's the oldest picture of myself I have online - though I can't compete with most of the ones on this thread. About ten years ago

[LaurenG]

95. What gentle eyes you have

Ten years is not that long ago in the scheme of things, at least once you are 20. I'll guess you look about the same now.

[alarcojon]

108. Why thanks for the compliment

I'll let you decide if I look about the same now. The hairstyle has changed quite a bit.

[bearfan454]

90. Here's a time regression series

The bearfan at 2



at 12



3 years ago



Time is not kind.

[LaurenG]

96. Time is kind

I love your pictures. I love peoples childhood pictures, they are always so tender and sweet. I tend to believe that the child is still inside smiling through our experiences and older bodies.

[bearfan454]

97. That's a very nice thing to say.

I'm going to remember that.