While I’m really late (almost a week) getting this post together, here it is, finally. Better late than never, right? The theme this week wasn’t an easy one for me to fill – I have a lot of posed photos of folks looking straight at the camera with few street scenes of everyday life. The bulk of my family photos come from a large trunk that I’ve talked about before, and the area where they were taken just wasn’t that well developed, so the backgrounds of photos are trees for the most part. Not too interesting. Thankfully, Earl Powis, great grandma Olga’s brother, sent home a few photos from when he was in the Navy during World War I (May 1917-August 1919). These were labelled as having been taken in Yorktown, Virginia, presumably at the Navy Base that’s still in existence. The buildings, however, I doubt still exist, so it’s hard to place where on the base this may have been taken. It’s really neat to see all the sailors standing around, smoking, and in the crop at the top, one of them seems to be catching a cough or wiping his face with his hand. I can’t identify Earl as having been in the photo, so I have to imagine he was the one taking it instead. Keeping this short and sweet to catch up and get on with finding an image for this Saturday’s prompt!
