Who Has Plants That Are Family Heirlooms ?

[journey11]

At least it's unlikely anyone will fight you over it like they do for money!

 

[Lavender2]

@journey11 , I bet those daffodils are pretty!
If you think of it and don't already have them, take some photos of the daffodils where they are growing... perhaps with your MIL if it's a special place or flower of hers.
I wish we had more photos of Grampa and Grandma and their gardens.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's a very sweet idea @Lavender2 , that would be a wonderful way to preserve the memory.
I have some old photos of my great grandma standing in her flower field
at the little log house she lived in when she and great grandpa moved off the farm and into town. I also have some tiny black and whites of their homestead and great grandmas flower garden there. She loved her flowers.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

It's not a photo per-se, but I do have a very amusing drawing of my grandfather in his garden, sort of. For his and my grandma's 40th wedding anniversary (or maybe it was the 30th) my uncle Red did a group of 4 large humorous sketches of 4 major events in my grandma and grandpa's married life (he did another one for their 50th, which I am actually IN) One of the 4 is when they got their house. As I mentioned, the garden on that house is all high narrow terraces, so to be humorous, Uncle Red drew Grandpa surrounded by mountain goats, in full Alpine garb (lederhosen, Tyrolean hat, the works) rappelling up the terraces with a watering bulb to take care of the garden.

 

[Smart Red]

It's not a photo per-se, but I do have a very amusing drawing of my grandfather in his garden, sort of. . . . . . .

And the 'very amusing drawing' is . . . where? I am always ready to be amused.

 

[Lavender2]

That's a very sweet idea @Lavender2 , that would be a wonderful way to preserve the memory.
I have some old photos of my great grandma standing in her flower field
at the little log house she lived in when she and great grandpa moved off the farm and into town. I also have some tiny black and whites of their homestead and great grandmas flower garden there. She loved her flowers.

Isn't it great... to look back, and learn about your ancestors. Great that you have some photos!

My family is photo junkies. Mom's albums fill a bookcase. I remember sitting with grandma by her fireplace, going through old black and white photo albums. She would laugh with us and tell us stories about living without indoor plumbing and about the 'ice boxes'. Humbling, and cherished memories!

 

[Lavender2]

It's not a photo per-se, but I do have a very amusing drawing of my grandfather in his garden, sort of. For his and my grandma's 40th wedding anniversary (or maybe it was the 30th) my uncle Red did a group of 4 large humorous sketches of 4 major events in my grandma and grandpa's married life (he did another one for their 50th, which I am actually IN) One of the 4 is when they got their house. As I mentioned, the garden on that house is all high narrow terraces, so to be humorous, Uncle Red drew Grandpa surrounded by mountain goats, in full Alpine garb (lederhosen, Tyrolean hat, the works) rappelling up the terraces with a watering bulb to take care of the garden.

What a great keepsake to have! It's sometimes hard not to be sad when we look back, but photos, and certainly your amusing drawing are usually of cherished times and happy events that are fun to recall. I certainly would smile every time I thought about my grampa rappelling in Alpine garb.

 

[thistlebloom]

I find that I have so many questions now about my mom and dads childhoods, and their parents and grandparents. I wish I had been more curious sooner. Most of those old photos are recent, nearly lost retrievals. My older sister knows a lot more about the people in them and I am determined to sit with her next time we're together and get the details written down.

 

[Nyboy]

My parents got a home movie camera when we where little. Most of family menories are on film. What a pain movie projector taken out, hopefully bulb not burned out, the screen set up, then hope tape doesn't break.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

And the 'very amusing drawing' is . . . where? I am always ready to be amused.

I think they're all currently in the back bedroom. That put them off limits for now, at least until the renovations on the back bedroom bathroom are done. But after that, I'll see what I can do about taking a picture. Just of that one, however. The 50th one is boring if you aren't a member of the family, and the jokes in the other three only make sense within the family (well most of them do)

What a great keepsake to have! It's sometimes hard not to be sad when we look back, but photos, and certainly your amusing drawing are usually of cherished times and happy events that are fun to recall. I certainly would smile every time I thought about my grampa rappelling in Alpine garb.

Oh I've got lot of photos of grandpa too, just none of him in the garden (well, none I know of). Grandpa was in film, so he loved to take photos and film. The downside of this is that even his candid stuff didn't look all that candid. The photos are certainly very interesting (especially because grandpa was so important in what he did that he was on first name basis with some very famous people in Jewish politics, so a lot of the photos are things like him cracking jokes with David Ben-Gurion and giving Golda Meir a friendly peck on the cheek. ) But they all LOOK like press photos, a bit staged. They're Grandpa the legend, not grandpa the person. That one wasn't the "nice" grandpa (that was the other one) but he was the "funny" one, and definitely the "smart" and the "cultured" one (not to say my other was dumb or crass, but he was definitely more "ordinary"). There's a lot of him in me, I think (and not just that we both collected stamps.)