Preserving Memories

On starting this blog i am at the computer doing lots of scanning of all my mother-in-laws photos of the family. It is very interesting looking over the young faces from years ago. I can't wait to have them all on the PC and know that we will have them forever to keep as family memory. I would like to share this poem -

The Strangers in the box

by Pam Harazim

come, look with me inside this drawer

In this box I've often seen

at the pictures, black & white

faces proud, still and serene

I wish i knew the people,

These strangers in the box.

Their names and all their memories

are lost among the socks

I wonder what their lives were like,

how did they spend their days

what about their special times

Ill never know the ways.

If only someone had taken time

to tell who, what & when.

Those faces of my heritage

would come to life again

could this become the fate

of the pictures we take today?

The faces & the memories

someday to be tossed away.

Make time to save your pictures

seize the opportunity when it knocks.

Or someday you and yours could be

The strangers in the box.

I would hate for this to happen for the photos of the Martin Family. So i am spending the time preserving the memories.