Nyel and Noel in the ’90s… but where?

We’ve arrived at that time in our lives when our friends are down-sizing and re-organizing and we have become recipients of some of their memories — mostly in the form of photographs.  With most of them, we find we are hard-pressed to answer all of those who-what-when-where-why questions.  But we love trying!

Yesterday, Pat Thomas sent a picture of Nyel and Noel.  “Wow!  I still had some color in my beard!” was Nyel’s first comment.  Judging by his glasses, we think the photo was taken in the mid-to-late nineties. Although both men look fully engaged in the conversation, Nyel has absolutely no memory of its subject and neither of us can identify where it took place.  Not our house.  Not Patty and Noel’s.  Where is the big question on that one!

Mom, Nanci, Jimella at the Ark in the ’90s

Nanci Main recently sent some photos she ran across of  herself with my mother and Jimella at the Ark.  Mom appears to be on her own so I think it was after Dad died in 1991.  The glasses and cane suggest that it may have been as late as 2005 or 2004 when she was 94 or 95, but my memory says she was  probably younger than that — maybe 90!  What a gal!

Although I’d like to remember more concerning the circumstances of these long-ago pictures, I’m not overly stressed about the parts that are foggy.  I actually remember a lot less about many of my much more recent activities.  Like… was it yesterday or the day before that I last had my  car keys?