Ninety Birthdays

We spent last weekend in Stowe, VT with extended family celebrating my grandmother's 90th birthday. It was nice to see cousins, 2nd cousins, etc. I hadn't seen for a while. It was also a bit strange. I was so close to some of them growing up and now we have very different lives, locations, etc. Despite all the advances in technology and the ability to communicate over long distances, there's still no substitute for good old face-to-face communication. It was nice to re-connect and I hope it helps us all renew our commitment to stay in touch. Maybe this blog will help?

With help from my mom and aunt, I scanned a bunch of old photos of my grandmother and our extended family and put them together in a slide show for the party. I used my iPod Photo to drive the slideshow and it worked incredibly well! There were 162 photos in the collection and I had them scrolling through one each 20 seconds. The coolest part of the iPod was that I was able to combine the photos with a playlist from my music library I created the night before. We listened to Billie Holiday during the really old photos, early Beatles in the sixties and some grooving disco during the 70's shots. Click on any of the photos or the Flickr link to see/download the photos. Feel free to add comments, tags, etc.