Poses With Posies

This is my sister Star and me way back in the Seventies. We are in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens on a family outing. Dad was always accompanied by his camera on these excursions and enjoyed taking photos of us standing in front of the local flora. (And fauna when it was available.)

I have to admit I was a bit of a tomboy when I was young: I enjoyed climbing trees and rooves (garages, houses – whatever I could access) and tearing around barefoot. Why walk when you can run? However, that hairstyle was NOT of my choosing. One of my aunts did that to me. I very much disliked the fact that I looked like a boy – ludicrously dressed in a green frock in this instance.

I AM highly amused, though,
by the way I am posing here…

I AM highly amused, though, by the way I am posing here, imitating a fashion model and displaying the sprigged pattern of my dress! I must have felt it deserved particular attention.

I am also enjoying Star’s combination of floral print skirt with photographic print tee. You could totally wear that now with nonchalant cool.

Below, a page out of summers past:

The gum’s all yellowed, and the prints are charmingly stuck down with no care for straight lines, but the sunshiny happiness of my childhood rises as I flip the pages of the family album.