Not that everyone’s really all that curious, but you know that love story from my grandmother that I used as last week’s Writer’s Notebook? Well, this is what those two looked like early in their marriage (I don’t have a precise date, but this is sometime in the `50s):

I asked my Grandma about this photo back in 2000, shortly before she died. She said she was pregnant with one of my uncles, and she was “hiding” behind my Papa to disguise her belly. π
And, just for good measure, here’s what they looked like roughly 20 years later, in the `70s:

Mom was pg with your Uncle Bill. I guess I didn’t know you had all of these pictures, or are these in the album I did for you? My mom is loving that you are sharing this.
The one from the `70s is from the scrapbook you made me. The one from the `50s is the one we included in our wedding. π
great memories! love my photos of my grandparents of the fifties era in black and white
So sweet! I love looking at these pics again after reading your grandma’s account of how they met. π
She has exactly the same smile in both of them. I love that. π
I love that too! I particularly enjoy seeing that first picture and after knowing them toward the ends of their lives, because that love and joy you see between them in the first photo lasted their whole lives. It was amazing to see. My paternal grandparents are the same way, as in love with each other now in their very old age as they ever were. π