Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

I thought I was done doctoring photos, but I had to see what all the fuss was about as regards egregious wardrobe issues.  And what...

Well I couldn't resist seeing what was here.  Double click to get the details.  The tag on Steve's photo says 7d ranch.  Howeve...

Forgive me for resizing this picture but it is such a classic photo I thought it was worth fixing up a bit.  So many details of our liv...

OK, we know where Louise is, but where in the world is Waldo, where is Dwight and there is a prize for the correct answer to where's t...

The evidence seems to point to POPCORN.

Ann and Judy should definitely recognize this.

Going through my hold baggage from Viet Nam in Penrose summer of 67.

These pictures prove two things, number one, Judy did work on the farm and two she had early practice at sewing wedding gowns. 

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.