Let's talk about the old days

This is my father, Jack Hicks Hopper (born 1906) and his baby sister,

Marjory Lynn Hopper (born 1910.) Dad blinked a little during the exposure.

I love what I can see of his side-buttoned striped shirt.

I love her open fresh look. She died young, at age 40,

of breast cancer. Since she lived in Arizona and we lived in upstate New York, 
I never knew her well; my father kept her grown-up portrait on his dresser always.

She wore her hair atop her head in a braided crown.

Family photographs like these are inestimable treasures.

Lime blossoms!

let's talk about the old days

making dinner in the kitchen.

Basho

translated by Robert Hass