Capturing the Past

This is a picture of my brother and my brother and myself on our 6th or 7th birthday. The first thing you will notice is that we are dressed mainly the same with the exception of the shorts, my brother's shorts being red, and mine blue. The second is that we are both reading a birthday card, most likely from the same person, as our parents always thought it prudent that we should open presents from the same benefactor at the same time so as to avoid jealousy. This is perhaps the very beginning of the present opening as it seems that none of the presents have been torn into and no wrapping paper is strown hap-hazardly on the ground for the small baby in the back ground, most likely my new-born cousin at the time, Mariel (You will no doubt notice her as the small pink ball in the background focused on something off camera). On the coffee table with the presents is an old, white cordless phone. Behind my brother is an old-fashioned fire place that came out of an old in that was used to build our house in the late 1920's. On the mantle are several old photographs of family members including one of my brother. Stylish old drapes cover a window in front of which sits an even older blue chair with a stylish throw on the back engraved with the letter S. A picture of some scene I cannot make out hangs on the wall next to the chair. In the dining room, the room that can be viewed over my shoulders, you will notice an abundance of plants as well as the same stylish old drapes. Blocked form view of the camera by myself, and most likely trying to appease her newborn daughter is, I bleieve, my aunt Cathie. It is a simple picture taken in a simple time when all I really had to worry about was when the next batch of presents would be coming.