Well, after a very busy holiday season, I’m finally catching up on a back log of posting. This is Sepia Saturday from before the annual winter break. Seated in the chair, examining the manual for his new Polaroid Land Camera 250, is Leon Kitko, my grandfather. The Christmas tree is decorated with garland and tinsel, and all the unwrapped gifts sit under the tree. Christmas was a big deal for his second wife, Romayne (Greenaway) Kitko, and there are tons and tons of photos of the Christmases they spent together over the years. I’m fairly certain the camera that goes with the manual followed me home in the last few years after Leon and Romayne both passed, so it’s neat to have this photo to connect it to Leon. It’s also a photo I’d absolutely expect to see – Leon with the furrowed brow, intently reading a manual, feet up, dirty socks just pulled out of his work boots on the floor. The date on the back of the photo is 25 December 1967, and the photo is a polaroid as well.
