Post a pix of you and your Dad, or YOU, as a Dad, with your kid:

[Shine]

Inspired by Taverner's, In_Transit's and RetroLounge's threads today... :)
Here's me with my Dad. :loveya: I LOVE my Dad...

[skygazer]

1. Sweet photo, Shine

And sweet idea. I tell ya, I'm so bored cooped up here by the rain that I've been posting in GD!

Here's my dad and I - I was about 3 years old at the time.

[Shine]

2. How adorable!

thanks for posting!

You've been in GD? :scared:




:yourock:

maybe I'll mosey over there, later on, myself....I usually just lurk.
:hi:

[Road Scholar]

3. Thank you for sharing. Dad's and daughters have special relationships.

It's easy to see that you and Dad have a special bond too.Does he also bragg about his daughter to anybody that will listen? I bet so. LOL:hi:

[Shine]

7. Hey, where's YOUR pix of you and your sweet daughter?

:shrug:

[Road Scholar]

20. Here ya go. ( I hope)

[Shine]

24. Awwwww.......

LOVE the hairbow. :D

btw, I fully concur with your sig line. :thumbsup:

[Road Scholar]

35. Sorry Duplicate

[johnnie]

4. Here we are having a bit of fun

He cracked me up with that poka dot face mask..LOL

[Shine]

8. LOL!!

:rofl:




Good one. :thumbsup:

[johnnie]

27. Sorry to trash your thread

I'm at work and don't have any available.

Actually, my father turns 67 tomorrow. :)


Maybe we will go knock off a bank for old times sake..LOL.

[Shine]

31. No apology needed. You added a bit of humor, which is always

welcome, johnnie.

We need to LIGHTEN UP, don't we??

Happy bd to your dad! My dad just turned 66 on 3/16, in fact. You and I must be about the same age...

:hi:

[johnnie]

33. I'll be 42 this year

Hard to tell by my infantile humor though huh? :)

[Shine]

37. LOL! I pegged it good.

I just turned 42 on 3/25, in fact. So, I'm OLDER than you!

LOL, and I'm not exactly the paragon of maturity, either. :silly:

Hell, Age is just a number.

:hi: :pals:

[Road Scholar]

45. I wish age was just a number. LOL I turned 63 on 3/30/43

:toast:

[Shine]

49. Greetings, fellow Aries!

:toast:

and Happy belated! :party:

My mom will be 63 in Nov, LOL.

My 12 yr old son has his "golden birthday" this year. He turns 13 on the 13th of November...Here come the daunting Teenage Years....:scared:

Yup, Time marches on....

[Road Scholar]

53. When my kids became teenagers, time broke out of marching

ranks and fell into a flat out run. I could see the hour hand spinning.First thing it was driver's license only a few blinks later and they were graduating from high school,then I looked up and I was getting ready to go to law school graduation. Cherish every moment Shine, every one that you can.

[Shine]

55. OK, you're officially freaking me out now.

:hug:

[Road Scholar]

63. I'm sorry. I just got to reminiscing when I saw that old pic of my

little girl. Please accept my apology.

[Shine]

66. LOL! I was kidding, buddy.

I freak my own damn self out, with, or without, anybody's help.

:rofl:

[johnnie]

65. Hey!!

You guys hijacked my attempt at hijacking your thread x(

Lol, kidding..again.

[Shine]

69. ...

:pals:

[XNASA]

14. The family that nicks together, sticks together.

You must both be very, very proud. :lol:

[henslee]

79. I think its great when a father and son/daughter work side by side.

[Shine]

80. Yes, it's a beautiful thing.

*sniff, sniff*




;)

[johnnie]

81. Yeah

Me and pops are coo like dat.

[progmom]

5. awww...what a sweet picture!!

That's me and my dad, about 30 years ago.

[Shine]

10. Precious!!! What a cutie you were!

so, let me get this straight: everyone else is drinking MILK and you're drinking BEER?!

heheheh.

:D

[djeseru]

6. Any excuse to show off my dad...

I need to find the one of he and I about 18 years prior to this one...

Thanks Shine - that's such a lovely one of you and your dad! :hi: Daddies are the bestest. :)

[Shine]

11. Great picture!!!

I love, Love, LOVE your gorgeous red hair and your dress is absolutely fahbulous, dahling! :hi:

:hug:

Thanks for posting!

[djeseru]

18. Thank you so much Shine!

:hug:

The dress is where most of all the wedding money went! :D And Daddy was a card the entire time...

[Shine]

21. Let me guess...

The Joker, right??

:D

...sounds like my kinda guy! :thumbsup:

[djeseru]

41. I loved that guy's sense of humor.

Wow, this is really the coolest thread - I love getting to see everyone's dad! Sometimes the best threads are borne from other really good ones.

[Shine]

42. Exactly right, djeseru.

the ripples go out.......

[skygazer]

12. Father of the bride pics always get me

I don't know why. I think that's what's going to get the ol' tears going at my daughter's wedding - seeing her daddy walk her down the aisle. Oh, crap, just the thought did it! :cry:

Beautiful photo. :hug:

[djeseru]

26. All the photos of my dad and I...

...at this wedding are the only ones I liked! This one is just a very particular favorite.

Thank you so much. :hug:

[XNASA]

9. Me and the Boy.

[Shine]

13. Wow, you can really see the resemblance, XNASA.

Good ole Gene Pool strikes again, eh?! Great picture, thanks for sharing! :hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

15. ...

This is my dad.



I never got to meet him. He passed away when my mama was only weeks pregnant with me. I have a man who helped raise me in my younger years, who I consider like a dad too, but this is the one that made me. :) Mostly it was my mom who was dad, but that's neither here nor there! ;).

I have a lot of his features, I look just like him. :). I feel like I kind of know him, from reading the poetry he wrote to my mom, and reading letters he wrote to my gramma. Anywho. He's in my heart. :D I know he made my mama happy, he was good to gramma, and knowing my mama was pregnant made him happier then my mama had ever seen him, she says.

[Shine]

17. Awwww....

from the pix I seen of you, I would say, yes, you look just like him. I'm really sorry you never got to meet him, but it sounds as if you've found comfort in his poetry and sweet letters. That means a lot, I'm sure.

I'm sure he must be very proud of the bright, thoughtful and kind woman you have grown up to be. :loveya: :hug:

He's in your heart, indeed. What is Remembered, lives....

[Ariana Celeste]

28. Thanks

:D. Yes I've found comfort and today I can look at his pictures and smile and feel like I know my dad, not just as an image, but as a person, and that's a good feeling!

This picture right here, ever since I first saw it thought I look just like him- in most of the pics I have of him, he's wearing a bandana like this...



Thanks for your sweet comment!!! :hug:

[Shine]

30. You are one hip chick, you know that?

:hippie:


:hug:

[Ariana Celeste]

48. haha

I sure like to think so!! You're pretty cool yourself, Shine!

[Shine]

51. ...

:hug:

Thanks. Yeah, well...I'd rather be HOT right now, than "cool", truthfully. I'm sooooooo tired of all the cool, grey and rainy days we Californians have been putting up with since FOREVER!

x(

Sorry to belabor the point, I feel like I've been going on and on about it, in various posts....but the weather's really been challenging to deal with.

sigh...it'll pass...I know. :)

[SeattleGirl]

16. Me and dad, when I was about 3 or 4

My dad, bless his soul, had been gone for nearly 30 years.

[Shine]

19. Very sweet, SG.

your little dress is just too adorable....:loveya:

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

34. My mom was wearing an identifcal dress that day

Mother/daughter matching dresses were quite the thing in the 50's!

[Shine]

38. My mom used to dress up my sisters and I in identical dresses.

in the late 60's, early 70's. I hated that shit. LOL.

:mad:

[SeattleGirl]

46. Yeah, my mom used to get the same outfits for me and my

sister. Different colors but same styles. I have a number of pictures of us dressed like. It was okay when we were pretty young, but the older we got, the less we liked it.

[Shine]

54. Yup, same here.

although I definitely remember wanting NOT to be like my sister, as a youngster.

LOL. To this day, we're VERY different.

[driver8]

94. My Mom used to dress my sister and I up in the same dresses.

I'm a boy...was that wrong? ;)

[Shine]

97. I don't know....YOU tell US!

:evilgrin:

[Taverner]

22. Posted this one before but...

[Shine]

25. Too cute....

those sweet eyes...

:hi:

Thanks for posting, Taverner...and thanks for helping to inspire this thread, in the first place.

:pals:

[Ava]

23. me and my dad when i was a baby

[Shine]

29. Precious!

how's your neck nowadays? :D

[Ptah]

32. OK

As seen in the recent production of Sunrise, Sunset.


I'm standing on your right


With my son, he's about three hours old


With my father and my children



:hi:

[Shine]

39. Great pix, one and all, ptah!

I esp. like the three generation shot. Very cool.

:hi: :hug:

[auntAgonist]

57. Ptah! thanks for posting the link to your Sunrise Sunset thread..

I would have missed it entirely. What a wonderful testament to your love for your family!

It was a most moving piece, you are very talented!


aA
kesha.

[Ptah]

61. I am surprised it touched so many.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.
:hug:

[Shine]

67. I'm not.

:hug:

[Ptah]

84. Thank you Shine.

Now I wish I had kicked it once or twice.

:hug:

[mdmc]

135. nice pics

thank you for sharing

[Redstone]

36. OK.

Going back to work now.

Redstone

[Shine]

40. Gawd, he looks just like you, Redstone!!

he's gonna be a handsome brute.

:hi: :hug:

Do you pilot airplanes, among your many other talents?

[Redstone]

44. Actually, he looks more like his mama than he does me. Which is

fine with me, because I like looking at her, too.

Yes, I know how to fly an airplane, but I don't have a license (yet). More information here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3507805

Thanks for the compliment.

Redstone

[Shine]

47. What a great post, the one you linked.

I hope you put that one in your journal. I'm assuming you did. :) You're a good writer, Redstone.

It's great to have experiences like those and to take from them the gift, of simply being alive. How sweet to share it with one's child, too. Very touching...

[MissHoneychurch]

43. You didn't say it has to be recent

this was taken Christmas 2000, half a year before he died

[Shine]

56. Great pix, Miss Honeychurch! Thanks for posting.

I love how in the second one, you're both wearing shades of grey.

I hope you have lots of happy memories of you and your dad....:loveya:

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

125. I sure do have a lot of happy and good memories

but I would love to still have him around. He is missed dearly.

[Oeditpus Rex]

116. It's strange, but...

just by looking at pictures of your dad, I can tell he was someone I would've loved to have known. Something about his eyes tells me he knew a lot that would've interested me.

And you, m'dear, look absolutely smashing in the second photo. :loveya:

[MissHoneychurch]

126. He was a very intelligent man

and a humorous and kind man.



I don't look smashing in the first pic? :)


:loveya:

[u4ic]

50. What a great pic, Shine!

Your dad looks like such a great guy...very cool, and very progressive! :hi:

[Shine]

52. Thanks, u4ic!! He IS pretty cool. In fact, I have to brag....

http://www.chuckhillig.com/

:hug: :hi:

[djeseru]

58. Fascinating...

...looking at the link gives me the feeling your dad and my dad would have had tons to talk about. He was always trying to reconcile Eastern and Western thought.

Thanks for the link! :)

[Shine]

62. Cool: The dads would have hit it off, just like their daughters have...

:pals: :hi:

[u4ic]

59. What an extraordinary man, Shine!

I can imagine that suppertime discussions would be no less than fascinating!

I loved reading his interview: http://www.ods.nl/am1gos/am1gos10/index.html?ch_ervaringsjunkie_us.html~mainFrame

[Shine]

64. Yes, he is a wise being and I'm blessed to be his daughter.

I don't think I'd seen that article yet, thanks!

He's off in India right now, on a book tour for his latest book....

[mdmc]

153. thanks for the link u4ic

very nice

[SKKY]

60. Here's ALiberalSailor changing ALiberalSailor Junior's very first diaper!

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket"></a>

[Shine]

68. Awwww....precious!!

I'll bet you've changed a LOT more since that pix was taken, eh? heheheh.
on edit: I realize my above sentence doesn't simply refer to changing DIAPERS. Parenthood is constant Change....

:hi:

Congrats on the new addition! :toast:

[SKKY]

73. Yes I have. I like what fatherhood had done to me...

...I highly recommend it.

[Shine]

74. Cool, I feel the same way about motherhood.

however, it's NOT for the faint-hearted!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

70. Here's me and RetroBoy

and some woman I used to live with...



RL

[Shine]

75. Thanks for posting, RL! How very sweet....

that grin...those teeth! too precious.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

155. Thanks!

He's a cutie patootie...

(Did I really say that?)

RL

[huskerlaw]

71. Here ya go...

My sis, me, and my dad...I'm the newbie...July 30, 1978.

[Shine]

76. How cute! Your Dad looks so wholesome...he reminds me of Pat Boone!

:D

[huskerlaw]

78. AHAHAHAHA

My dad? Wholesome?? Hardly!

:spray: :rofl:

As for the Pat Boone look...it was 1978, what can I say?

[Beaverhausen]

72. My Dad, me and my nephews at a Phillies game last summer

:loveya:
It was dad's 80th birthday. Doesn't he look great?

I've got to call him!

[Shine]

77. Yeah, he looks GREAT!!!

How sweet. What a cool pix, thanks for posting! :hi:

[bigwillq]

82. That's a great pic, Shine!

:hi: :hug:

[Shine]

86. Thanks, darlin'!

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

[astonamous]

83. I think he liked me a little - I sure liked him.

[Shine]

87. Oh, how adorable!!

look at that happy smile....precious. :hug: Thanks for posting! :hi:

[Road Scholar]

85. This turned out to be a helluva post !

:hi:

[Shine]

88. Thanks for helping to inspire it by YOUR thread!

and the ripples go out.....

:hug:

[Road Scholar]

90. Yes they do!

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[In_The_Wind]

89. I just realized the last time I saw my father I was only 20.

I miss you, Daddy.

[Shine]

91. Awwww...I bet he'd be proud of the spirited woman you've become, Joani.

:hug: What a sweet picture! Thanks for posting.

Which one is you? :shrug:

[In_The_Wind]

99. Thanks Shine.

I was the 12 year old (looking like 20) wearing the white dress and ballet slippers holding our cat Skipper. :) The one who has a nose matching matching the guy wearing a tree limb for a hat.

[Shine]

103. LOL! I'm glad I asked cuz I thought that was your MOM!

you certainly look older than 12 in that pix. Pretty dress, though!

:rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

109. I have no idea why graduation from the 7th grade required a prom.

I guess maybe it's because Southerners love soirees and cotillions.
My mom was a redhead. All those kids were from the neighborhood.

[Shine]

110. I LOVE that dancing girl !

...the cyber one AND the one in the picture, that is. :loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

129. You are very sweet, Shine!

I don't think either one of those dancing girls were children but I don't think we'll ever get old either. :shrug: I guess the trade isn't a bad thing after all.

[driver8]

92. A picture of me holding my son...

This picture is a couple of years old, but the only one I have in photobucket.




I am on the left with my son Daniel.

[Shine]

95. Very sweet, driver8

Is that your wife, holding your daughter? :shrug: It looks like you got one of each, just like me. :thumbsup: What a great blessing, eh?

:hi: Thanks for posting!

[driver8]

104. Nope -- not my wife. Just a friend.

We took the kids back east to visit my parents. My friend stopped by to visit. Her daughter and my son are just a couple of months apart.

I do have a daughter, though. Her name is Leah and she is 4 years old.

Here is my son, Daniel and my daughter, Leah.



They are, indeed, a blessing!

[Shine]

106. oops, my mistake. But hey, you DO have one of each, so it's all good!

:D

[Left Is Write]

93. I have a pic handy of my dad with my daughter, but not with me.

[Shine]

98. I'll take your word for it, girl.

heheh. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

102. This is the one...

I'd be in it, except I was behind the camera. :)

[Shine]

105. What a great pix! What a great lookin' family...

your daughter looks just like you, too...

and your Dad, how handsome...

:hi: Thanks for posting!

[Laelth]

96. Me and my 1st apprentice ...

... shortly after she was born, while the laurels were blooming.



-Laelth

[Road Scholar]

101. Very cool! I remember my first. Precious!

[Shine]

107. Awwww...how cute!! You look so happy, Dad!

:hi: Thanks for posting! Have fun watching her bloom, too.

[Laelth]

113. That's nice of you to say.

I can't tell you how happy having her has made me. There is not a day that goes by that she doesn't bring a smile to my face.

:D

-Laelth

[Road Scholar]

100. Congrats. Let me be the 100th!

What an inspiration your post is. What memories to so many people. Wow! I'm very proud of you. Thank you very much for posting this.

I'm very proud of you! Lex is a moderator. Cool, huh?

[Shine]

108. Thank you, my friend.

I just recently noticed she was a mod, when I posted again in your other thread.

I hadn't run across her yet, but I told her that I thought YOU were cool, which makes HER cool, too. :thumbsup:

:pals:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

111. Here's a couple.

Here's me with my dad and my sister. Isn't he a handsome feller?! Damn I miss him.


And here's me with my father in law on my wedding day. I love this guy like he was my own dad.

[Shine]

115. Very handsome, indeed. Both of them.

Thanks for posting! :hi:

[Briarius]

112. Me and the kiddo!

[Shine]

117. Awwww...what an adorable picture!!

you both look so happy and mischievous. :) Precious smiles....cool bandana, too!


:hi: Thanks for posting, Briarius!

[ChoralScholar]

114. I am very close to my dad also

Here's me and him... circa 1978 (that was a pimpin' Plymouth Fury III in the foreground there)


Here's me asking ChoralScholar Jr. if he wants to take a ride with papaw on the lawnmower:


Of course you know what the answer was.


Here's the last one. All three generations. And the way I will always remember my dad... pontificating... "You mean... to tell ME... <insert rant about Bush or the economy here>"

This particular rant was:
"You mean... to tell ME... that I'm licensed, by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, to pull doubles and triples, tank trucks and hazardous materials all OVER this country, but I have to come down, and prove to YOU, that I can drive a 15 passenger van?!?"

(talking about his encounter at DMV)

[Shine]

118. What great pix, Choral Scholar!

Thanks for sharing.

I esp. liked the last one, with the three generations and your Dad, "pontificating"...Sounds like he was a real character!

:hi:

[ChoralScholar]

121. Still is... I guess it sounded like he passed away.

He's still going strong at 65.

[Shine]

136. Oops, my mistake.

glad to hear he's still goin' strong...may he continue to do so for many years to come! :toast:

[Maestro]

119. Here we are in San Diego

[Shine]

137. So cute! Thanks for posting, Maestro.

hey, is that your modest, 20-room log cabin in the backround? :shrug:

:D

[Carla in Ca]

120. Here we are...

Me with my mom and dad in 1958.

[Shine]

138. What a good lookin' family! Your Dad is very handsome, Carla.

Thanks for posting! :hi: from the Santa Cruz mountains, where it is STILL raining...... :banghead:

[bertha katzenengel]

122. Happy for you, Shine

You both look happy :)

[Shine]

140. Thanks, bertha! He's a good man.

:hug: :pals:

[Road Scholar]

123. Later Shine. I'm watching Duke/Maryland girls in overtime. Too

late for an old guy like me. I'm glad I met you.:kick: An excellent thread.

[Shine]

141. ...

:hug:

[Kerrytravelers]

124. My parents on their wedding day, 1962.

First pic my Dad took in his uniform, 1962.

[Shine]

142. So handsome! and your Mom is beautiful, too.

Thanks for posting, Kerrytravelers!

:hi: from the rainy Santa Cruz mountains!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

127. Here goes:

It's a bad pic for a few reasons. One, the damn thing is blurry, two, this was taken over a year ago when I was at least 15 pounds heavier and three, because I was kind of caught off-guard when they took the pic, hence the weird expression on my face.

There are better pics of us, but this is the best one that's on my hard drive so far.

[Shine]

143. Cool pix, Starbucks!

Thanks for posting! :hi:

[cleofus1]

128. me my dad and little brother

before i became an atheist...

[cleofus1]

130. son me and daughter

[Shine]

144. Great pictures, cleofus1! BOTH sets of them...

Thanks for posting! The one with you and your kids is really sweet. Looks like you've got one of each, like me. What a great blessing, eh?

:hi:

[malta blue]

131. here you go!

Here is a shot of my Dad, me, my brother and little Malta Blue at my brother's engagement party.

I adore my family!




on edit: typo

[Shine]

145. Awwww....how sweet, malta blue! I love your 3 generation shot.

Very cool. :thumbsup: Thanks for posting. Your Dad is very handsome and you and your daughter have great smiles!

:hi:

[malta blue]

150. Thanks Shine! eom

[Skinner]

132. My dad.

I don't know for sure how old he was when this picture was taken. I think he was still in High School.

[Shine]

146. Cool pix, Skinner. He looks thoughtful & smart, like his son turned out.

:hi: Thanks for posting!

[tuvor]

133. Miss ya, Dad.

[Shine]

147. LOL!! What a great pix!!

:rofl: Too funny. Very cute. Thanks for posting.

It makes me remember the day we brought our first-born newborn son home from the hospital: he started crying, I started crying and then my hubby joined in, too.

There we were, ALL of us crying.....undoubtedly thinking, "Well, NOW, what?" heheheheh.

Good times, tuvor, good times...... :D

:hi:

[mdmc]

134. are you feelin up your daddy's knee

:)
k/r nice pic shine!

[Shine]

148. Ewww..mdmc!

:spank:

you naughty boy, you....




:D

[mdmc]

152. who loves ya, shine?

:D

[YankeyMCC]

139. Dad and Son exploring

http://flickr.com/photos/25085949@N00/123758935/



And one of my Dad and my son and my Mom.

http://atrek.org/mikecc

[Shine]

149. Handsome, handsome, handsome...all the way down.

:hi: Thanks for posting! Your son is adorable...those teeth, too cute!

[YankeyMCC]

151. Thanks

[Road Scholar]

154. I'm whelmed, no, I'm overwhelmed.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :hi: