52 Photos Week 49: Winter

Question

This week's 52 Photos theme:

WINTER

To participate, simply:

1. reply below, and
2. add a photo that fits the theme to this week's free-space gallery.

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Comments

Oh man, do I have winter pictures! My family comes from North Dakota and Minnesota. The hard part will be picking the best one.

Answer 1

My sister had so many clothes that she could hardly move. But she loved the snow! Last winter she had so much snow that the turkeys looked in her upstairs window.

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Gorgeous photo of your sister thank you for sharing

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What a sweet photo!

Answer 2

The family house of my wife in the small village Heiderfeld (120 inhabitants), Municipality Leezen, Administrative Municipality of Leezen, County Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The paternal grandfother of my wife built the right part in the mid 1950s, her father built the left part in the mid 1970s.
The photo shows the house in winter 2003.

Comments

Lovely! This would make a great postcard, Dieter.

Answer 3

This is a photo taken about 1924 of my father Clare Lovelace Jr. I actually have two more of these photos showing the stages of his building this snowman. This is my favorite, because he looks like he is admiring his work.

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What a magnificent snowman Alexis your father look adorable thank you for sharing

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Thank you Susan for your wonderful comment. I think the snowman is interesting—with what looks like hands holding a baseball bat.

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Clare looks like he is contemplating the quality of his work in the snowman. Cute!

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Thank you Pip for your great comment,

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This is a request for photos of building the snowman from Mags and Sarah on the WikiTree LiveCasts today. I never saw that my father was hiding behind the snowman in this first photo before. Thank you, you ladies are great! 

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Oh, this is great, Alexis! All those photos, a real treasure.

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Thank you Pip. This was only about the third time that I have seen Weekend LiveCasts.

Answer 4

My Grandmother, Oma M Allsion-Rammel (1895-1995) in 1969.

At age 74, she still had the spirit to build a snowman in front of her house in Assumption, Christian, Illinois.  Here she is with a snow man in 1969.

Comments

Great picture!

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Good for Oma, Bill, that she held on to that youthful spirit.

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Thank you for sharing this wonderful photo

Bill

Answer 5

My dad at the age of 7... same behavior I would have expected from him at age 57.  Cold weather never kept him from having a good time, and everyone was fair game.

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Love the cars in the background for context.

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Typical of a boy, even when they grow up (ask my wife). I, too, love those old cars.

Answer 6

These are two of my mother's sisters, Dorothy and Ida.   Taken in Norwich, England in the1950s.

Comments

Love the hats (and the smiles), Christine.

Answer 7

This is my mom in Susanville, Lassen County, California, in the winter of 1945. Apparently, she thought it would be a gas to wear her hula skirt in the snow. She was in high school at the time :)
https://imgflip.com/i/4orqbk

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You managed to get it off the privacy setting, so that I can see it when I follow the link. (BRR!). To get it posted so that everyone can see it:

Go to your picture. Put mouse on picture. Click "copy image location." Come back here to your answer. Click EDIT. In the box with the green border, click the photo icon (looks more or less like a sun and 2 mountains.) This will open a dialogue box. In the space for the URL, paste the image location. In the little box on the left, click WIDTH. Click OK and SAVE.

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Hello Joyce, Thank you for your explanation of how to do this. You are a great asset to WikiTree and we appreciate your instructions. I will copy and paste your message into a separate file so I can do this too when appropriate. Thank you again.

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Thanks Joyce :)

I hope it worked this time... That's a LOT of steps :O

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No I still did not see it. I tried it and managed to get it posted onto this "winter" page. (At least I think I did. Can you see it now, Marion?) It's a great picture! Ron, I hope if you have another interesting picture, that you will be able to post it. Keep trying!

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I can see it from the link and here, and love it! Your mom was a brave one!

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Aloha From Maui! Thank you all. Now I can see the hula dancer. By the way, the motion she is performing is the one that signifies waves. Every hand motion means something in hula. Snow is like waves, only it is solid water!

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Gorgeous photo your mother most have been freezing

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Thank you, Pip... Yes, she was very brave, in many ways. But she did this on a lark :)

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Thank you, Marion. Good to know information... We learn something new every day.

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Yeah Susan, I'm sure she was. But that kind of stuff never bothered her :)

Answer 8

My father after shoveling the snow off the road in 1942. He  did have help there is another photo with more men in it. (Well, that did not work. Back to the drawing board.)

Comments

I looked at your history, here's the picture:

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Look at the height of that snow behind your dad! I bet he was ready for a hot cup of something when he was done.

Answer 9

My mother and uncle with their grandfather in Winchester, Massachusetts, circa 1934. I'm thinking they may have been using the shovel to go sledding on nearby snow drifts.

Comments

My mother used to sweep the snow off us with her broom before we could go back inside.

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Looks like they’ve been having a blast there, Chip. Great photo!

Answer 10

Here is how we dress during the winter in California. The photo was taken 15 Feb. 1997 at the 100th birthday party of Grace Valentine Dawson Olmsted, (seated) who was born on Valentine's day 1897.

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Thank you Marion for sharing such a wonderful photo of very lovely Grace on her 100th birthday.

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What a happy story. Her name was Valentine; she was born on Valentine's Day; she celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends. I"m glad you posted this picture for "winter" instead of "birthday." It's good to be reminded that everyone is different. Not everyone has snow in the winter.

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Grace looks like a stately matriarch in this photo, Marion. A wonderful photo.

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Standing to the right in the red dress is my Mother, Lucille Dawson Ceruti. Standing directly behind Aunt Grace is Cousin Raymond I. Dawson, Lucille's first cousin. Grace V. Olmsted is the Aunt of both Lucille and Raymond. I am standing to the left. Aunt Grace is my great aunt.

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You all look lovely! Wonderful photo!

Answer 11

Webster Kids in Winter, December 1958: Kathleen, Janice, Peter and John.  If you fell down in those puffy snowsuits, it was difficult to get up!  

Comments

Please try posting the photo again. All I see is a polar bear in a snowstorm (all white screen.)

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Please recheck?  I resized the photo!

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The image appears resized but it is still blank. I tried viewing in a different browser but the result was the same.

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I just changed the photo.  The older one was a PNG file.  Now its a JPG.

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png should still work. I still can't see it. Maybe the photo privacy settings do not allow public viewing. I think you can edit the privacy settings on the photo to change from private to public. If you go to the profile where the photo is posted, click on it and there is something about privacy settings. Choose the green one, I think. I don't remember exactly how to do it because I did it only once.

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Like Marion, I can't see anything, so I went to Janice's contribution history and I can see a you uploaded a photo, but the privacy settings limit me to just a thumbnail of the photo. It looks like you uploaded it to your own profile, and obviously you're still living, hence the privacy level. You could instead load it to the free-space page linked at the top of this page, but because the picture is already present on WikiTree, its going to ask if you want to load it twice.

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Hello Ron, thank you for clarifying the privacy procedures. I am still learning this.

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Ron thank you and also Marion.  I've uploaded a URL from a domain I own.  Hoping this works.  Sighs, I am such a noob huh?

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Yes, I see the picture. All that trouble was worth it.

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Hello Janice, Thank you for persisting until picture was visible. It reminds me of my childhood in snowy New York where we made snow men and snow "angels."

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Janice did someone just knock you down or was that a slip in the snow?

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Pip I'm sure it must have been a slip.  Mom was watching after all.

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Marion thanks for being so patient with the photo.  Snow men and snow angels were for babies I guess we were thinking as that pile we are standing on ended up as a snow camp igloo.

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Mom watching - kids behave.... mostly. 

Answer 12

I uploaded a picture of my ggfather, James Edwin Compton ,on the porch of our home in Cambridge, Mass., after a snowstorm in approximately 1950.  This house was later sold to Harvard University by my grandmother, Elizabeth Anabelle Compton Power.  You can see the house as it looked after Harvard bought it on James Edwin Compton's page right under this winter storm picture

Comments

To get your picture to appear on this page so everyone can see it:

Go to the picture. Put your mouse on it. Click "copy image location."

Come back here to your answer. Click EDIT. At the top, click the picture icon (looks vaguely like a sun and 2 mountains). This will open a dialogue box. In the space for the URL, paste the picture location.

On the left , click the little box that says WIDTH. Then OK and SAVE.

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That worked. A lot of snow in this picture. It looked a lot different in the summer.

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Look at all that ice hanging from the eaves! That a lot of snow!

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Yeah, it is.  And it stayed around a looong time.

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I bet, being so far north. I’ve never seen that much snow in all my years, living here in the South.

Answer 13

Fun in northern Minnesota in the 1960's.

Some old horse pictures that I already posted:

Last year's picture - cutting ice blocks from a MN lake, and hauling with horse & wagon.

Another oldie - going for the mail on a little horse-drawn sled.

A bigger sled, group of people on 30 mile ride with team of 4-horses

Comments

Wonderful old photos! Thanks! My great-grandfather lost his arm in an ice-cutting accident.

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That does look like a lot of fun, Rob!

Answer 14

My grandparents in front of the biggest snowman I've ever seen :) 
The badge on the snowman says "Fort William Winter Carnival". The photo was likely taken around 1960. The carnival still happens every year at the old Fort William in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

I couldn't help myself... while I was looking through photos I found this absolutely adorable photo of my Mom and brother... I have no idea what happened here, but neither of them looks very pleased.

What do you think just happened to these two grumpy faces? 

Comments

They may be grumpy but I am laughing!

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That is a huge snowman! Bet that took some time.

The second photo reminds me of the younger brother in A Christmas Story, all bundled up so he could hardly move.

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So right! I bet you could tap him and he'd fall over, poor little guy. His outfit looks like they might have been from the winter previous and didn't quite fit anymore. :)

Answer 15

This is My ggfather, James Edwin Compton, on the porch at 14 Fayette st., Cambridge, Mass, after a storm in about 1950.  This house was sold to Harvard for off campus housing after my ggmother passed in 1972.  You can see the house as it looked after Harvard owned it on James Edwin Compton's page.  

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14 Fayette St. Cambridge, Mass. after Harvard took it over.

Answer 16

I have never seen snow in Western Australia but our winter, from June - August can still be harsh.  This is a photo of my father, Ted, taken during our August School Holiday trip in 1958 to the picturesque sou-west of our state. He's checking the depth of water across a floodway after heavy rains.

Comments

Is he wearing a hat, jacket and tie? On a holiday? To wade in the water?

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Hi Joyce, yes this is the 1950's.  Going on a holiday was a big thing and we all got dressed up.  Dad's wearing his hat, a sign of respect and etiquette, as well as a sports coat, trousers - these had the single crease down the centre of the leg, tie and knitted vest.  It was all the fashion.  By the early-mid 1960's, the men's fashion sensed changed to a more casual look, though the women still kept up the appearance and looked as demure as always. When we started off our 4-5 hour journey, I'm sure he wasn't expecting to go wading in floodwater with his trousers well above his knees, haha.

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This is great! A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

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"winters... can still be harsh", lol.  Sorry, but if it's not frozen, it's not winter (just kidding)  For us, we knew it was the dead of winter when it got down to -40'C. I've seen snow in all but 3 months. Interesting to see a different perspective.

Answer 17

It is hard to believe that I live in Canada and could not find a photo of any of the many epic snowstorms that I have lived through in my life. 

This photo is of my business partner's dad, George, who paid a visit to our restaurant at Christmas in 2017 and is helping himself to a pint!

Every winter for the past 40 years George has been the Santa Claus in the Toronto Santa Parade. George will be presiding over the " virtual" parade on Saturday, Dec 5 2020.

Comments

After looking at all the pictures of snow, I too am ready for a beer. Great picture!

Answer 18

My husband's great grandfather was an early photographer, but his career was in education after graduation from Wabash College, his career would take him from Indiana, to Kearny Nebraska, to Kalamazoo Michigan, and finally Saint Paul Minnesota. The photo's he took are archived by his great-grandson, Richard Bruce Beeson Jr, my husband. I will try to upload some of the picturesque Winter Scenes he photographed over 115 years ago.