Myrtle and Fred – A Photo I Want

I had a hard time deciding on a topic for today.  I couldn’t decide on any of my good photos that I have.  I looked and looked to find a photo that inspired me or talked to me.  I usually like to show off a great photo that I’ve come across and fixed up to look wonderful.  Hopefully some other family members like it enough to copy it to their own growing collection of family images.  How else will those old family photos survive through the generations?  You can’t just let them rot away in an old drawer or attic.

When I was hopelessly looking for an amazingly inspirational image, I came across this one.  I got this from my mom’s cousin on the Phenice side of the family.  (Thanks, Shelly!)  It was in a booklet that my grandmother Myrtle Phenice Bucklin’s sister Marguerite Phenice Hill had written that was called “Marge’s Memories.”  I’ve shared some of that information in a previous post.  At the end of the booklet, there were old family photos.  This is the one that really caught my attention.

It looks like a great photo of my grandparents when they were young.  Maybe not real young, but younger than they were when my siblings, and cousins, and I knew them.  Obviously, it was a nice photo of them that they shared with family members.  This is the only version I’ve seen of it.  I could work on this to clean it up, but it would be working with such a bad version from the start.  It’s a Xerox copy and the lighting is really bad.

Surely there is a good copy of this photo somewhere, right?  And if so, I hope that whoever has access to that photo would be willing to scan it or take a photo of it to share with me.  Such a simple little thing.  It’s a photo of my grandparents Myrtle Phenice and Fred Bucklin.  They were my mom’s parents.  Now if you happen to come across an even better photo of them that I haven’t seen before, I’d be willing to take that instead. 

Do I sound greedy?  I definitely want as many old photos as I can get, but I only want a digital copy.  You can keep what you have.  You would just be duplicating it.  There would be more for everyone!