Grab a Book: Intelligent Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, 1976. If the books don't interest you, then you can play with the ball.

Grab a Book: Calm Edition

Suburban Chicago, September 1961. Mom still wears that brooch.

Grab a Book: Lap-Dog Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, July 1977. Mom and Gigi settle into a Sunday afternoon.

Grab a Book: Sunny Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, July 1978. There's that hat.

Grab a Book: Look-Up Edition

Suburban Chicago, April 1965. Mom's relaxing in the Rec Room. She wears a favorite sweater.

Grab a Book: Sunday-at-the-Park Edition

Brooklyn, New York, June 1950. Yes, the focus is bad (there's only so much software will do); but there's that hairstyle again.

Grab a Book: Bug-Spray Edition

Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, July 1962. Keep it handy.

Grab a Book: Hammock Edition

Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada, July 1960. Mom relaxes after we finish the chores.

Grab a Book: Shoreline Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, July 1974. It's nice to read at the lakeshore.

Grab a Book: Summer-Evening Edition

Suburban Chicago, June 1961. Relax after work.

Grab-a-Book: Reluctant Edition

Suburban Chicago, November 1957. We kept and used that radio for another forty years.

Grab a Book: Pay-attention-to-me Edition

Suburban Chicago, December 1983. Meškė competes with the book.

Grab a Book: Serious-Tweed Edition

Suburban Chicago, December 1973. Sometimes Dad smiled for the selfie, and sometimes he struck a serious expression.

Grab a Book: Fireside Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, April 1976. Mom has her projects within reach as she sits near the fire.

(I posted the mountain-goat photo here. I see that I have not yet scanned the other image on the wall. I'll dig around for it.)

Grab a Book: Three-Dog Edition

Suburban Chicago, January 1989. Heidi the Daschund visits again; our Meškė (on the left) and Žulė are in the picture, too.

Grab a Book: Vacation Edition

Near Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, July 1959. Many vacation activities took place on that bench.

Grab a Book: Smile-for-the-Selfie Edition

Door County, Wisconsin, February 1979. Dad sometimes preferred a serious expression.

Grab a Book: Nose-Guard Edition

Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, July 1962. Mom fashions a nose guard from a leaf. She's sitting near the dock.

Grab a Book: Memento Edition

 

Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1958. A friend sends this tranquil image to my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana. The woman also appeared, seated, in the center of this photo.

Grab a Book: "Downstate" Edition*

Urbana, Illinois, September 1984. Mom and Dad visit me again—this time, they're checking out the new apartment. They brought Meškė! (Meškė's leash sits on the edge of the desktop.)

Mom's reading my copy of Vogue Knitting, and she brought a project to work on during the three-hour ride from Suburban Chicago. That gold, vinyl knitting bag travels well.

*To Chicagoans, anything south of Joliet is "Downstate"—or "Southern" Illinois.