Friday, April 26, 2024

Brothers

 

Three year old Marty didn't know what to think of the tiny brother Russ who his mom (me) brought home from the hospital just a few weeks ago.

A few years later found a wintertime visit of these same brothers and mom to Disneyworld.


The shot on the left shows Russ as an active 6 year old upside down on a palm trunk. On the right the brothers discuss what the Hillsborough River below might have as adventures for them. We were camping in Hillsborough State Park in the spring, and the bull alligators calls kept us awake half the night. We had been assured our camper van in the campground was safely far away from the river banks where their interests lay.

A few years later, Marty was on leave from the Navy, and there was a new half-brother, Tai, with a different father.



Here I'm on the left, and Russ, once a tiny baby, or an upside down acrobat, then was a college student at Georgia Tech,  Brother Tai and mom visited cousin Zach in Houston TX (on r.) Cousin Lisa and Aunt Mary aren't in this picture but were a big part of the visit (as well as grandparents Rogers.)


Then Marty got married, with Russ on far right, and Tai on far left.

And in the course of events, I had grandchildren!

Here oldest grandson in plaid (brother from another mother) hugs his little sister while their brother also checks out dad who's shooting the same photo.


One of my favorite photos of my three sons, when Russ (on l.) got married, with now grown up Tai (in middle) and Marty (on r.) Sorry, couldn't find the copy that didn't have lots of reflections on it.

There are now three granddaughters to add to my family! But this is about brothers...so let's have sisters sometime soon!

Sharing with Sepia Saturday. 




9 comments:

  1. What a great post to match the prompt! And what handsome sons - all three!!! Well done in every way. :)

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    1. Thank you. It was fun gathering these from family photos.

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  2. These are wonderful photos of your sons. So nice to see that last one after all of the growing -up photos. I have two younger brothers, and it was so much fun growing up with them. These photos sparked many fond memories for me.

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    1. There were so many happy times...often without photos! But these bookmark the ages we went through together.

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  3. Very handsome photos! Following a long line of photos like this is fun to see how time transforms boys to men. I have many photos of my son as infant, toddler, and boy, but as he matured to teenager, young man, college man, and now husband the number of photos diminishes. I guess kids are just more photogenic than adults.

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