Thinks happen: Thoughts on Tuesday

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Thoughts on Tuesday - Birthday Girl

Here is an interesting collection borrowed from over at the Lost Gallery. Lots to think about here. Here is a sweet set of photographs of a little girl and her birthday cake. It must have been a tradition for the family. Each is an annual photograph of a cake with one candle for each year and a pose in the best clothes on a birthday. Our little girl grows up. I figure she must be about 62 now in 2009. Here she is at One Year Old.	It's an ongoing wonder to me how photographs, in this case, negatives of events this precious can be lost to the family. It just doesn't seem possible. These are from a very large group of negatives found on an eBay estate sale. There were a couple prints with the photo lab date stamp among all the negatives which established the date of one of the birthdays. This enables speculation for dates on the rest of the birthdays. It is speculation because the photo lab date is the date the prints were made. The film may have gone to the lab weeks or months after the event. And at two years Old.	It is a lovely story for us. Often it's the same table or the same background. A year apart. Many were under exposed or over exposed. It must have been in the south of the US somewhere. Lots of grass and leafy trees make the background of many of the shots. There were sometimes four or five shots of the same occasion. The best of the group is represented here. Mom and dad were not the best photographers but they were consistent. And at three.
This is Four	Five	And at Six
The seventh birthday	Mom and Dad bought a new camera this year. It was probably a Brownie Hawkeye. It was 1955. Eight	Nine
And ten	Eleven years old.	She's already a young woman
I can't find a picture for 12 years old. This is Thirteen.	Thirteen going on 24?	Fourteen Years Old
And that's all I can find. Pity there isn't a "Sweet 16" photo. If one turns up, I'll add it. There are a couple hundred negatives in this pile.