From my mantle

This picture of my Nana & Pop is my favorite. This is how I remember them, always. This is the picture that I've have framed on my mantle. They were a team, always holding hands. When my mom emails about my Nana going to the beauty salon to have her hair done, this is the style, unchanged through the decades. She went every week to have it styled & slept in a hair covering to keep it fresh until the next visit. My Nana is thin in this picture. When my Pop was diagnosed with emphysema, my Nana proposed that she would lose 50 pounds if he would quit smoking his pipe. They both did. Long before the Atkins diet was popular I remember my Nana's breakfast or lunch being a hamburger patty, some cottage cheese, black coffee, grapefruit juice and a mound of vitamins.

Nana & Pop

I recently bought a scanner so that I could convert old pictures to digital. The first picture I scanned was of my Nana & Pop. I'm guessing that this picture is from the mid 1980s. I'm not sure who took the picture, clearly someone sitting in the back seat of the car. This is how I remember them - always touching. Do you see the twinkle in my Pop's eye? He did not talk much but he always had the twinkle. I have another picture of them that I like more, but I need to take it out of the frame to scan it.