Gardening: Aunt Laura and Mom

Mother and Daddy always enjoyed gardening and working in their yard in Mineral Wells.  Bird-watching was another of their hobbies.

Lots of times family members from their generation would come to visit them in Mineral Wells. This looks like a bright spring day.

The people in the  top photo are Ernestine and Hipp  Arthur, Alma Denny, Laura Atwood, and Mother.  Aunt Laura and Mother got down and looked at the tulips up close.

Snow in Comanche January 1943

On January 2, 1947 Aunt Laura wrote in her letter to Aunt Mamie:

"we are having the most beautiful snow.  It started New Years Eve and the forecast for tonight is more snow.  We (Ed and Laura) are carrying water to the chickens three times a day for three days so far."

We lived nearby Ed and Laura's place that year. Snow was and is so rare in Texas.  It was huge fun.  Here are a couple of pictures from that day. In January 1947 Bill was 4 and a half and I was 8 and a half.  Our birthdays are 4 days apart.