Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

As we have talked about summer sewing projects, Judy said she would post a picture of the wedding dress project if I would post a picture of...

After whining to Steve about how to get rid of the chickens, in his amazing wisdom he said "put an ad on Craig's list". Being ...

Here is something fun. Judy and I were talking about when Dad was baptized and I was pretty sure I had his certificate. It is terribly faded...

Can you tell I am going through more of my stuff? As I am looking for things for my story I am finding a few potential treasures. This one i...

Maybe Steve can shed some light on this letter?? This is a transcript of a letter written to Dad regarding the making of lampshades for the...

I have no idea if these were posted before.  I was sorting through old photo files and came across them.  If you have seen them b...

Has anyone ever seen this picture?

Another photo rescued from the dark ages

photo taken 1981 Dad and Elna at Roscoe Blood's grave in the Fort Collins CO cemetery 1988

There is one very important thing about these family pictures.  You can see the smiles and laughter that occur when we are together....

This photo of a family gathering at Grandpa and Grandma Wasden's is probably one of the most important family pictures ever taken i...

I know we've all seen this picture many times, taken by Uncle Norman, I think, on the day he took pictures of all of us.  However, ...

Not great pictures, but images likely worth saving.  Dad and Elna came to Fort Collins and Russell and I went with them to Nebraska ...

Sorry, Ann, I know its a poor picture of you and Beth but I thought the picture coming out of the black was worth saving for the image ...

I fixed these two pictures the best I could.  I'm glad they were never deleted.  I think these must be in 1956 possibly from our...

Have you seen this picture before?  I sort of resurrected it this morning.

I had a research meeting for my marketing project I was working on in Tucson so after the meeting, we drove over to San Bernardino to s...

Aren't we having fun?  Another coal black negative that has a memorable picture underneath.  Skin tones aren't great, but would...

Since I was having so much fun with the photos below I salvaged from 55 years of outer darkness, I started to see what else was pitch bla...

Here are three pictures of Judy (and Velna and Russell) taken in Fort Collins the summer of 1956 when Judy came to stay with us a...

I must have had a primitive camera when I took these pictures, but at least we have these.

Possibly Measuring for the new Dairy Barn?

It turns out there is a whole lot more to the story that connects this picture with the earlier pictures I posted of Judy and Bob in Che...

This picture was just too good to led molder in the archives.  Robert here shows the Happy Days type person that charmed Judy.  I think...

The thing about shopping at Costco is that you never know what you want or need until you see it at Costco.  And that is how Velna a...

Thursday Annie, aka Kathryn Ann, aka the Swedish Meatball Fairy, aka the Costco fairy, aka the Costco Toilet Paper Measu...

Dear Judy and the rest of the Petersen family: I have just laughed, cried, and marveled my way through every written word and photograph in...

I absolutely love hydrangeas.  The perfection of the flowers, the gorgeous heads of blossoms, the variation in colors and f...