Synthesized Completed Puzzle Pictures Using Random Pieces with Some Missing

Synthesized Completed Puzzle Pictures
Using Random Pieces with Some Usually Missing
I posted these 3 photos on the WEEKLY PHOTO SHARE Facebook Group page that I am now ADMIN for. The weekly theme I chose was: BLUE I posted these this week for the them One of the very actively involved member of the nearly 2,000 photographer members responded and the following message thread began.

Donald Garrett Good ones! You really get around.

Donald my life has been filled with travel and traveling.

In 1950 my parents, my 2 brothers and I and our Grandmother Black took our 1st annual Family Road Trip to visit family in Platte, SD, my Scottish cousin, Irene, Scottish Olympic Skating Champion who had married an American she met during WWIII and moved to the use where he was from plus my parents wanted to see some of their country chosen country.
I vaguely remember that we did take road trips to Toronto and Niagara Falls to see an older sister of my mothers and cousins plus we had driven to McKeesport, Pennsylvania to visit my  father's relative living there: Father, Step-Mother, his step brothers and sisters, a step-uncle, brother of his step-mother and his son.  The story about how the Black family from Blythe had emigrated to the US requires a chapter all its own.

It began in 1925 when his real mother and her 4 sons came across on a boat to Ellis Island and were eventually turned back to return to Blythe because she was rejected, suspected of happy Diptheria.   She died shortly after returning.

My grandfather Black, who worked at sea as a mechanic on ships returned in 1927 to bring his oldest son to his new country.  The 2nd and 3rd sons came over in the next few years together on a ship.  The 4th son who was a mere baby of less than a year of age in 1927 did not come to his new country until after WWII in which he was an RAF pilot.  He brought his new German bride to McKeesport then.

By the Summer of 1961, thanks to my parents, I had been in all 48 mainland states, eastern parts of Canada a few times and a small border town of Mexico south of San Antonio.  During those 11 years we saw so many national parks, monuments, corn and wheat fields, mountains, canyons and stayed in hundreds of cabins, some shaped like teepees, motels, guest rooms.  I grew up while the highway system that Eisenhower gave us during his 8 years as president was being built and the hotel/motel system was developing.

I am a "triple A trip-tik kid" trained through multiple first-hand trips through our 48 mainland states from sea to shining sea from the Canadian to the Mexican border .

Beginning in 1967, trip to Montreal EXPO 67, began my international traveling. 93 countries, single country, multiple country, and 12 complete trips around the globe beginning in 2001 for fun and work.

Donald Garrett WOW!! Truly envious. My parents never ever took us anywhere except to Grandma's twice a year and that was only 25 miles. The first time I saw the Atlanta Ocean was when I was 23. Now we go lots of places. I wanted to make sure that my kids had life experiences!

my immigrant parents wanted to see as much of their chosen country as they could. So beginning in 1950 they began taking Summer Family Road Trips

we didn't have a boat, a weekend cottage or cabin, lived in a modest small house.....and family were spread from sea to shining sea or some of our neighbors from Detroit moved to Colorado or California....excuses to go visit them.

HA HA that was my parents goal, plan, dream
but the only trip all 3 sons went was in 1950.

My oldest brother (8 years older) managed to avoid all further trips

My middle brother (5 years older) managed to avoid all but our trip in 1957 when we picked him up at Lackland AFB after he completed his basic training and he joined our trip to California and back that Summer.

Writing that sentence has me questioning if we took
the ANNUAL FAMILY ROAD TRIP in 51

My oldest brother started his freshman year at UofMich in 1952 when he was 16

My middle brother joined the Air Force after graduating from HS in 1957 left for basic in June.

Hmmm? My fuzzy collective puzzle pieces from many different puzzles all missing the box top with the photo of the final puzzle in side the box seems to be missing some to many individual pieces.

My life memories are often synthesized images based on random pieces that my mind, heart and soul has assembled into completed images missing many pieces.

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