Now way back to: My Sister and My Mom, in another summertime

This was taken circa 1956 in my childhood backyard in Camas, WA. Heidi still had a sort of puppy-ish look and my mother appears young-ish, too, as I snapped their pose, probably with a Brownie box camera. I was an only child (other than Heidi), but two doors away was a large family who quietly tolerated Heidi's raids on their picnics and playful romps with their children.

When snow fell, the kids would line up behind each other and Heidi would "domino" the line into the fluffy stuff. Another regular event which excited the neighborhood occured when Heidi created her favorite activity, a car ride: but in this case, she sat up proudly like the Queen, filling the front seat of the dogcatcher's truck, because she couldn't fit in the back! The shrill voices of the children would pierce my mother's attentive ear, "Mrs. Warren! Mrs. Warren! The dogcatcher's got Heidi AGAIN!!!"