Wordless Wedneday



Geese On The Green



Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday (Almost): Swan Lake

Swan Lake - received from hub's cousin Carl Stanislaus

So peaceful and contentful (is that a word?).  Makes me think of a summer day at the lake.

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday (Almost) - Happy Birthday Robert



Happy Birthday to our baby boy! Hope you have an AWESOME day - we love you!



Robert - age 2



Robert - age 7

Robert  - age 21

Robert - age 41



Mary Post Warren

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Fun Foto Friday: Photo Booth Pictures

1961 me



1962 me



1960 my sister Martha and me

 Just some fun photo-booth photos from the early '60s, just for the fun of it.

  Check those glasses out and hairdo's!

Do-it-yourself photo-booths were very popular in the 1950s and '60s

Four pictures in a 'sitting' with just seconds to change poses. 

I use to have 100's of these little photos but they have become lost over the years.

Mary Post Warren

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Little Girl Lost - Tracie L Post

Today is Tracie's birthday - every birthday and oh, so many times during the year, I think of her and pray for her.  We love you Tracie and we miss you.
Tracie L Post was born May 27. She is the daughter of my youngest sister. Her father is unknown. She was raised by her mother with the support of her maternal grandparents.  My sister eventually married and went on to have other children but as she grew older Tracie always felt like a 5th wheel (as many in that situation feel/felt).  The last time we saw her was in 1987.  The below picture is from that time.


I have searched far and wide, all in vain for her - using Twitter and Facebook, writing on blogs, searching the internet.  Shortly after Hurricane Katrina I obtained an address for Tracie that was right in the middle of a suburb of New Orleans.  A list of volunteers was posted on the internet saying they would help with finding loved ones lost in the hurricane.  I e-mailed one and gave them them particulars - they were traveling from Baton Rogue but would be driving to New Orleans within the week and promised to get back to me.  The house was no longer standing, but people who used to live in the neighborhood said they remembered Tracie and had lived there but had moved out a couple years prior.  That's the last I've been able to find out.

A lot has happened in our family in the 22 years since we have seen Tracie and we all love her and miss her.  We'd love to be able to find her and reconnect.  Maybe she doesn't want to be found and that's ok.  But we'd like to at least know she's ok. 

Tracie - if by some fluke you are reading this - WE LOVE YOU - please e-mail me, go to 'profile' on front page of my blog - and click on my picture then click the e-mail link.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I wrote this post several weeks ago not knowing that this week is 'National Missing Childrens Week' ....Tracie is not a child but she was and always will be to us.  I hope this will help us find her.

Mary Post Warren

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For security and hopefully identifying purposes I have left off a couple of items that could definitely identify her.  I am hoping that she sees this post or someone who knows her sees this post and directs her to it.

Thankful Thursday

I haven't blogged much this past week mainly because I'm on a mad dash to finish up my #1 goal for 2010.  I know I've still got 8 1/2 months to finish up but, hey, I'm anal! Ask anyone who knows me!  When I start a project I work until it's finished.  And this goal was a HUGE goal in my eyes.  What is it you ask?  Well............

My #1 goal for 2010 was to scan and digitally organize 46 years of photos plus my childhood photos (another 20 years) plus my parents photos that I inherited.  So far I've scanned over 3500 photos....I've got about 1000 to go....at the rate I've been going I figure I should have this completed by the end of this month!

One thing that made it a little easier was the fact that all my pictures for the last 10-12 years were not paper but taken with a digital camera...thus subtracting a large amount from the last 46 years.

My parents photos are glued into the old photo books with pages similar to this ---------------

.....most pages can be scanned and then cropped and resized by photo.

I will finish off this job by burning all photos to CDs and then giving one to any member of the family that wants one.  I'm doing mine into a 'screen saver' and thus being able to view pictures anytime - from ancestors, to immediate family members, to extended family members - they all be on my 'computer screen'....and the best part about this is I'll be able to add photos as to the program as a new member joins our family.

So I am eternally THANKFUL that this chore did not take nearly as long as I thought it would and that it is almost done!

(P.S. any feedback on whether people would use a service like this to digitalize their photos would be appreciated....it's something I've been thinking about as I've scanned, and scanned, and scanned, and...........)

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday

My brother Jimmy and myself

(approx 1944)

Mary Post Warren

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Zion National Park

As winter 2010 has quickly made way for spring and summer 2010 I think back on a trip we made a couple of years ago, while living in Nevada.  Howard and I had the pleasure of going to Zion National Park. It was late April or early May. It's hard to believe that this beautiful area was so close to home (just a 90 mile drive up the interstate into Utah)...we stayed in a 'lodge' just outside the park and then took the free bus tour through the park.  There is camping in the park but many areas are inaccessible by vehicle (except on the bus to drive by).  The day (and nights) were awesome with the highs near 80 and the lows in the 60s.  The temps in the 'valley' (i.e. home) were already starting to top the 100 degree mark.  We saw many mountain climbers working their ways up the side of the mountain, natural wild flowers in bloom, and water falls trickling down the sides of the mountains.

Now that we are in Arizona we plan on day trips/or overnights to such beautiful places as Sedona, Flagstaff, Williams (where there's a train trip one can take to the Grand Canyon, with the option of spending the night and coming back the next day).  We've also got the 'white mountains' just east of us ....just as pretty in different ways, plenty of camping and a tad bit closer.

I pray these lands will still be around for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren to enjoy with their children.

The pictures below were taken at Zion, from the deck of our room...as the sun rose over the mountain.

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Thankful Thursday - Spring

After a very cold and wet winter in Phoenix, and for most other parts of the country, I am very thankful for spring, which is finally springing.  We've had awesome weather this past week with the temperatures in the mid 70's to mid 80's.  Technically spring is still a couple days away (officially Saturday, March 20) but I'm starting early this year!

Don't get me wrong, I love sitting by roaring fire in the fireplace having hot chocolate and popcorn, the winter holidays, and family all around.  Nothing beats spring though and I'm ready to sit on the patio, sipping ice tea while reading a good book; barbecue; and, watch the flowers bloom.

The flowers posted here are from our backyard when we lived in Nevada. My mother was the gardener in our family, my flowers in my yard were left over from the previous owners and just seemed to keep on blooming. I just may try to plant something this year.

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.  Psalm 104:24  KJV 

Mary Post Warren

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Happy Birthday Girl Scouts!

Kim receives her 'Silver' Award



Today is the day when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first members (18 girls) in Savannah, Georgia. As of today there are over 3.5 million people involved in the Girl Scouts of America.

As a Girl Scout for several years I remember over-nighters, camping trips, visiting the elderly, selling girl scout cookies, and other things to support my community. My girl scout leader was fairly close in age to us (maybe 10-12 years older) and was a real 'trooper' when it came to putting up with 10-12 pre-adolescent and adolescent girls.  She was also LONG TIME member of the Girl Scouts of America.  I believe her example led me to be a leader for my daughter's troop for several years.  She was a girl scout for many of her elementary and junior high years. I also received a 10 year pin for my time with girl scouts.

It's been fun reconnecting on facebook with many of the girls from those days.  So Girl Scouts of America as you celebrate 98 years of  scouting - here's to the next 98 years! 


Mary Post Warren

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This is Dedicated to One I Love - My Dad (part 3)

Today I'm posting some special pictures of a special person in my life....my dad....it's funny that as I go through the pictures I have there are so few of my dad as a child.  I only have one or two snapshots and a couple of professional pictures.  Did people not take many pictures in the early 1900s, or did they just toss out what they had?


I'm scanning pictures that I've taken over the last 45+ years and I'm willing to wager that I've taken over 10,000 pictures (seriously).  That sounds like A LOT to me and we don't even have grandchildren!  There would probably be a gazillion pictures if we did!

In the picture on the left - dad is being held by the woman.  I'm not sure who she is...maybe his mother or one of his grandmothers or an aunt?  Hays' brother O.J. is the older boy with the darker hair.

Hays Post and Elizabeth (Coulter) Dingler

To the right is Hays Coulter Post with his cousin Elizabeth Coulter (Dingler).  She is the daughter of Luci Hays Coulter's oldest child and only son, Camillius Coulter. 


Check out these posts also:


This is Dedicated to One I Love - My Dad (part 2)

This is Dedicated to One I Love - My Dad

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday

U.S. Geiger Naval Ship

Postcard picture of the ship that took my husband to Germany in 

1958 for a 3 year tour of duty in the U.S. Army





Mary Post Warren

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Thankful Thursday - Our Beautiful Country




Yosemite, California

 

New England in the Fall







Over the last 45+ years we've been blessed enough to do some traveling through this great country of ours - both by ourselves and with our children...each time we've gone to a different place I'm amazed at the world God has given us....truly from sea to shining sea the country I live in is the best.   



Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.



Mary Post Warren

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Speechless Saturday - Hays and Margaret Post

(Picture taken in early 1940's)

Hays Coulter Post and Margaret Elizabeth Troyer-Post



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 Mary Post Warren



Question of the Day...

My new years resolution this year was/is to scan all my photos and save them to a disk so that my children will each have copies of all pictures.  The biggest issue I've run into with this is - what the heck does one do with all the originals?  I had told myself I was going to throw them out.  But, alas, as my waste basket got fuller and fuller I just could not get the heart to take them to the trash can....I've picked out dozens of them that I think I should keep 'just in case'.  And I still have not emptied the waste basket because I'm thinking about 'do I REALLY want to do this'.

As silly as it may sound I have visions of 100 years from now people looking for something in a land-fill and finding literally hundreds of my photos (maybe 1000's).  These people will then be wondering whose family is this? what happened to them? Stranger things have happened.

I love my digital camera....YEAH no more paper pictures unless I want them. The last 10 years of pictures have been taken with a digital. Seldom did I need to print one out, if someone wanted a copy I'd e-mail it to them and they could print it.   Not only is it easier this way but it also does not take up as much room as boxes of photos.  I've noticed digital cameras are also great because they are all time-stamped.  Who ever invented that idea was a real genius!  Soooo, I guess my question of the day is to those who are in this same process of scanning pictures - what do you do with your printed pictures?


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 Mary Post Warren