Forty Years of Love and Patience.... And Did I Mention Patience?

Congratulations to the Bronx kid, Ralph and his lovely wife Jan on forty years of marriage! Real nice!

Italian Ice Skating

Italian Ice + Ice Skating = Ralph's father putting on the blades and skating a figure eight (or nodo a otto, as his paisans would say). A fine winter's day in Bronx photographer Walter Slattery's backyard. I don't where Ralph is. Either, he's not yet born, he's putting on his skates, or he's home with Spaghetti Grandma stuffing the cheeks with pignoli and cucidati!