The photos I’ve submitted so far for the weekly photo challenge have been from North Africa in 1941 or 1942, but my father, who took those photos, missed out on an Egyptian summer.\u00a0 He left Australia in spring to go to war in the Middle East where it was autumn followed by winter followed by spring, then returned home to autumn followed by winter.\u00a0 However, in the album there are photos taken a few years later when he and my mother had a holiday together, in what looks like summer.\u00a0 Well, it was in Queensland, where it’s hot for at least nine months of the year.<\/p>\n
My father’s face was heavily shaded by the hat, but editing it to increase the brightness revealed his features.\u00a0 This is how he always looked.\u00a0 I don’t think I ever saw him without a cigarette dangling from his lips.\u00a0 However, something that’s unusual to me is his short sleeves.\u00a0 I never saw his bare arms.\u00a0 I was born about thirteen years after this photo was taken, and by then he was wearing long sleeves and trousers in all weathers.\u00a0 I always wondered what he was covering up, especially when temperatures were up in the high thirties of summer.<\/p>\n
The romance implied in these two photos is somewhat comforting.\u00a0 ‘You take my picture and I’ll take yours.’\u00a0 They seem to be enjoying their holiday. \u00a0 My mother is about 24 and gorgeous in clothes she made herself;\u00a0 my father looks healthy, tanned and muscular.\u00a0 This is not the man I knew all those years later.<\/p>\n The photos I’ve submitted so far for the weekly photo challenge have been from North Africa in 1941 or 1942, but my father, who took those photos, missed out on an Egyptian summer.\u00a0 He left Australia in spring to go to war in the Middle East where it was autumn followed by winter followed by … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hotel_scarborough_ron_resized_adjusted3.jpg\")
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