When in Our Twenties

Most everybody enjoys seeing old photographs from their past. I feel as if images may be more important to me than to others. I don't know of any people who have made taking an ordinary photograph a daily part of life. If it weren't for flickr, I probably wouldn't have been clicking at least once a day for the last 3.6 years.

Still, there are certain older photographs I've uploaded to flickr that are so familiar that I think of them as helping to define me. I couldn't believe that the following one has never shown up on my eJournal and images blog. The paper image is 23 years old having been taken in 1986. It was snapped during my very first trip to Sri Lanka. At the time both Jay and I were under contract at the Taif Army Ordinance Corp in Saudi Arabia. We were relaxing at the house in Minuwangoda wearing sarongs. There's no way I would be able to fit in that New Hampshire t-shirt were it still around today.