I am veering off the adventures today to share a bit more about a deeper layer of myself.  This is related to my late Grandfather, Norman Braton. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, he was a Mechanical Engineer.  Here is was in the 1966 approx. at around age 47, almost the same age as I am. He even appeared in National Geographic in 1983, this is the picture they posted in the magazine. He was shattering a tire frozen in liquid nitrogen.  He wrote engineering books too.

To me though, he was my grandfather that loved all 5 of his grandchildren equally and taught us all so much about how to live a good life and caring for others. To make a long story short, he passed away in 1995 after a long illness and it hit me real hard. Especially since I am quite sure he had suffered beforehand.  I was 28 years old then, I never felt like I got over it and carried that pain all these years.

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Fast forward to 2013.  I had an old picture he took during fall in the 1970’s.

 I have to give my Grandpa a lot of the credit for getting me interested in photography, although it took awhile to become so important to me. Thanks Grandpa!

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