Thursday, November 17, 2011

In a galaxy far far away... Happy Birthday Grandma...

November 18 marks the birthday of my beautiful maternal grandmother who died when I was just 11 years old. She was born in  Southern Russia in the late 1800s, and grew up in a world filled with music, poetry and laughter. 
Then came the revolution of 1917 and soon the world she knew was over. With her husband , three children and one on the way ( my mother) she immigrated to the Canadian prairie and started a different kind of life.  
I am so thankful that I had the chance to know her. 


  Grandma is the one with the guitar. I believe this photo was taken around 1906 when she would have been around 18-19 years old.

1 comment:

Barefoot Driver Studio said...

I have heard that the guitar also made the trans Atlantic crossing with the family.