The original of this photo is 3 X 4 inches, and faded to sepia already. It's too small to see much detail, but that's definitely Mom and her brother Reinhard on the left.
It's one of those family pics that just makes me smile. Mom's informal, slightly pigeon-toed stance, and the third friend leaning into the group--and they were laughing...but you really can't see faces much. So, scanning, darkening and enlarging it gives us a WAY better view:
I'd guess it was taken the winter following the 1939 California trip, since mom's holding the Camera, and the woman on the right looks like Marjorie Albright, her friend from the cities.Looks like they're about to go skating...there's no snow on the skates, their mittens or knees. Was Reinhard the driver, or did he just go along to kibbitz?
I don't recognize the place. It could have been in Minneapolis, rather than Buckman, and Rhiney was visiting, so he didn't have his skates along.
(I love imagining the set-up for a photo--the fifth person here, the photographer, said "Wait! Let's get a picture now before we're all too cold to stand still!")
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