my mom's friends always comment on how much my mom and I look alike

For no particular reason, this is my Mom and Dad in the seventies (they were 20 and 21, respectively):



I came upon these photos when I was home for Christmas and took them with me, since I'm the only one in the family with a scanner. I even color-corrected them (or, rather, Photoshop did with its automatic color-correction tool -- how does it just know?!) Many people are under the mistaken impression that the entire decade of the seventies was sort of brownish-yellow.

Hi, Mom and Dad! (I've now rendered my blog the equivalent of a once-in-a-lifetime appearance in the background of the television coverage of the Macy's Day Parade. Just get me a parka and a posterboard sign).