Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Rich

My sister, my mother, and my brother, on Mother's Day a couple decades ago. At Meijer Gardens.

Debbie (my sister), Joan (my wife), and Richard (my brother), walking along the harbor (St Joseph River) channel in St. Joseph, Michigan. We were heading to the pier on Lake Michigan. 8/24/2013. Yesterday my sister posted a little essay to Facebook that mostly described a phone call we'd had the day before--just keeping in touch; no substance to the call. The essay also talked about her cat, vocalizing, but the note was mostly about reaching out to friends and family. She attached a photograph she'd taken on this visit to St. Joseph, of Joan and Dick and me, on the pier, with the lighthouse on the other pier in sight. I almost immediately added this photo in the comments; soon Joan chipped in with an image she'd taken during this visit. 'Twas a fine, and well documented, afternoon. Anyway, here's to better times. And to memories.

My brother Richard, my sister Debbie, and Missabe 178, an SD18 (yeah, only a railfan cares). Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention tour, 8/8/1987; Proctor, Minnesota. Photo taken with a Minolta Point-n-Shoot and scanned from a negative.

My brother, in the mid-1960s, stiffly posed next to either Lake Michigan or Lake Superior. Photo by Roger Dinda; scanned from an Agfachrome slide. Gotta love those shoes. It's Dick's birthday; he'd have been 66 today.

And my brother, Richard. Proctor's up the hill from Duluth. Photo taken 8/8/1987 during the Missabe Railroad Historical Society's annual convention. Scanned from a negative. I sometimes call myself a "recovering railfan." The reason most of my rail photographs are old is that I stopped chasing trains in the early 1990s.