Wednesday, November 29, 2006

12 Years of Christmas

[posted by Callimachus]

Second photo: Dec. 25, 1961.




Man, did I love that riding horse. Which looks like a product liability lawyer's wet dream, now that I think about it: all tight steel springs and jutting edges anchored to a hard-as-granite body on an easily tippable frame.

Most presents still wrapped; a lot of "building blocks," probably from the influence of my grandfather, the tool engineer, and an unaccountable, and unremembered, toy on the floor that looks like giant blue testicles.