I just wanted to share this photo, because I think it's lovely. It's a picture of my grandmother taken at the beach in Oostende, Belgium. I've no idea how old she is in that photo, I forgot to ask my dad, but my guess is she must have been somewhere in her early twenties. She seems so happy in that photo...
I just love to watch old family photos as they show you people in a way you've never known them. I've always known my grandmother as a grandmother. But she too once was a kid, a young girl, a bride, a young mother...
After her funeral last month, a big metal box that she'd been keeping with her and which contained pictures of a lifetime, was passed along. My dad took a couple of photos home and scanned them for me. And while he was at it he sent me some other beautiful photos of him, my mom, my grandfather, my maternal grandparents. Small treasures...
I decided I wanted to post some of them here. So, let this beach photo of my grandmother be the first one in a series of old family photographs...
To be continued, I promise!