Sepia Saturday 361: Heads Off to Fun

I loved the prompt this week. We weren't clever enough to think of posing this way. My family beach photos are standard fare. 

This photo of my sister and me makes me laugh. We look so helpless and puzzled, like we just landed on Grand Beach, Manitoba from another planet. I'm guessing our father was manning the camera and shouting instructions for us to look like we're having fun. That never works does it? 

I'm fond of this photo because my father looks like he's enjoying himself. He would come to the beach on the weekends and I believe he came by train, as we did . . . but we got to stay during the week as well.

There was a plan to take my photo every year under the little tree and there would be a record of
both of us growing. I don't think the plan worked out as I could find only two photos, perhaps two years apart.

And finally, two of my favorite beach photos taken sixty-six years and eight thousand sixty-six miles apart. I felt the same joy of the moment: warm clear water, silence but for lapping waves, blue sky, contentment. 

Grand Beach circa 1947

Angel Island, Indonesia, December 2013

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