The 2012 LENSCRATCH Mother's Day Post, Part 2

The 2012 LENSCRATCH Mother’s Day Post, Part 2 by Aline SmithsonMay 13, 2012

©Terri Gold, Mom and Aunt Rita on my mothers wedding day, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NY 8/4/1946

My father had just returned from the pacific theater of World War 2. My mom is gone now but my fabulous Aunt Rita is still alive and well and the matriarch of the family.

I will spend Mothers Day with her and our family including 12 great grand children.

©Faustinus Deraet, Happy Ride, Tokyo, Japan

©Lisa Blair, Mar’s Glasses, Santa Fe, NM

©Deanna Witman, A Mother Mends, Pennsylvania

©Bootsy Holler, Visiting Ginger 1958, Richland, WA

©Nicole Larrondo, Mom after the earthquake, Santiago, Chile

©Nicole Larrondo, Grandma, Diego and Narnia, Santiago, Chile

©Ali Donnelly, Grandmother, Charlottesville, VA

©Aileen Reilly, Daughter Helping Mother Walk, Harpswell, Maine

Taken this past summer, this is my mom (67), helping her mother (93), my grandmother, walk and maintain balance. Now, however, my grandmother is mostly in a wheelchair and her brain continues to deteriorate from alzheimer’s. My mother has put her life on hold to move to her parents, 1000 miles away, to continue to help them maintain balance ~ physically, mentally, and emotionally.

©Lauren Jack, India #4, Agra, India

©Sean Miller aka Aldo Baxter, MOTHA, Grand Tetons National Park Wyoming

©Mark Hobson, Alice and her daughters, Cherry Hill, NJ

©Ahmer Inam, Ammi, New Delhi, India

Susan Stayer, Ma With a Friend, Young’s Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, OH

Heather Evans Smith, Me and You, Winston-Salem, NC

This image was taken on my first Mother’s Day. What started out as a
self-portrait, quickly turned into a mother/daughter session when my
daughter refused to be put down. I couldn’t imagine the image any
other way now.

©Danielle Rene’ Khoury, Secure, Fort Worth, TX

©Jane Gottlieb, Mom at 2, Newark, NJ

My Mom had an interesting, difficult life & died way too young. I think about her everyday since she died 30 years ago. Here she is at 21 looking beautiful & mysterious…wish I had known her then!

©Laurie McCormick, Lora, Yonkers, NY

I took this of my mother back in the early 60’s when she took me to a camera store to buy film for my camera…

©Heidi Kirkpatrick, Mother, Springfield, Ohio

©Phil Brown, Mum Turns Sixty, London, England

©Robbie Kaye, Staying Til the End of the Party, New York, NY

©Estelle Disch, Mom and Molly, cerca 1985, Lynbrook, NY

Molly was an unpettable cat who would bite when touched but who liked to be near people. My mother Helen, a true animal lover, provided a special chair for Molly so that they could watch TV together every evening without challenging Molly’s boundaries.

©Dagmar Vyhnálková, Babička, Brandlín, CZ

©Tytia Habing, Watching River Rats, Watson, Illinois

My mother is the heart and soul of our family. Without her, we would be lost.

©Consuelo Mendez, Fabbiana’s first mothersday, Caracas,Venezuela

©Harris Dunlap, The Family (most of it), Seattle, WA

In my family it is my mother that keeps us together. She keeps us informed of each other’s goings on lest we get so wrapped up in our own lives that we forget about each other.