On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Photos from several different people.
Dan B
30 + years ago my partner and I were infants, right? Must have been! And the mortifying matching outfits (my partner hates being the center of attention) were the coup de gras. I thought d-i-v-o-r-c-e would be the next event to ‘celebrate’.
30 years later we’re still glaring, amicably, at each other. My former sister in law, she of outfit sadism, has moved to distant Oregon so we are safe at last!
MagdaInBlack
Attached is a holiday photo of my 1st cat, the Original Cookie Cat ( all my tabbies were named Cookie) in her favorite Christmas spot. She never bothered the tree.
Medium Magda.
Itty Bitty Magda
A lurker
I am just a lurker. But i read balloon juice every day, and saw your request for Xmas pet pictures. Here’s a picture of our boy Travis with Santa. He loves dressing up.
way2blue
Here’s a photo of Skeeter for our holiday series. Actually might be one of her brothers, Jazzbo or Misha.
Trivia Man
Trivia Man
circa 2003 with my 2 sons
Trivia Man
hat tree topper
MagdaInBlack
Awww, these are all such fun ! Thank you 🎀🎄🎀
JPL
Awesome!
Merry Christmas.
Princess
@MagdaInBlack: I had to look closely to make really certain your photos were not actually of me at the time.
Betty
A nice treat. Thanks, everyone!
MagdaInBlack
@Princess: Well…..my husband always said I had a good twin sister my parents sent to live elsewhere to save her from my influence……….😉
There go two miscreants
I have enjoyed all the pictures in this series! I am very envious of folks who actually have pictures from their childhood; very few have survived from mine. Many rolls of undeveloped film went…undeveloped forever!
Trivia Man
Some good memories, glad I dug them out.
That early, hatted, tree was pretty sparse on decorations. But I direct your attention to the mistletoe- I made sure we had that! Sadly, I think that batch was defective because it never worked even once.
Tip: if you don’t have mistletoe you can use parsley (most people won’t notice!). One year the parsley was very effective for me.
Trivia Man
on the tree with a REAL topper you can see a big, paper plate sized ornament with my sons picture. Hand made by him in pre-k it is one of very few things we have of our sons before the adoption. We missed the early years so we tried to hang onto every scrap of those treasures so they wouldn’t lose them, too.
Central Planning
@MagdaInBlack: I had a haircut almost like your Itty Bitty Magda pic, and pretty much a towhead (sadly now dark brown and turning gray).
I’m told one year when I was a kid, it took us something like 6 hours to open the presents under the tree. Apparently after each present I had to assemble/play/whatever with it before moving on to the next one. I have no recollection of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eduardo
That visibly suffering Dan’s partner and the lurker’s goodest boy ♥♥♥
Barbara
@Trivia Man: The first thing I thought when I looked at that final picture is, “So that’s why the ER needs extra staff over the holidays . . .” Great picture, for what I am sure was a very fun moment.
DanB: you can enhance the fun of events like this by having a game of “name the color,” for those shirts– “aubergine” and “burnt nehi orange.” Your SIL’s lime daiquiri shirt isn’t too shabby either.
Ruckus
@There go two miscreants:
I’m the last one left in the family and just before my sister passed she sent me the family photo album. It is interesting to see the progression over the first 1/4 century of my life, after which the major change was my beard turning mostly white and the hair on my head disappeared. Next year will be 3/4 of a century. It has been an interesting trip and I hope that I make that milestone, a century of breathing.
John S.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Dan B and his partner in person at a BJ meetup. They are good people.
WaterGirl
@John S.: Do they still have the mustaches? :-)