The feeling of yesteryear

Why is it the summers of childhood are always warmer, the ice creams cooler and the memories of a time gone by are always filled with joy, safety and above all -  a sense of being fixed somehow in a frame while the big world continues to change? Of course because we want it to! I have a strong drive for development in all senses and I love the technology that´s all around us, but at the same time strives to be enveloped in the foggy times of yesteryear ca 1950-60. But what the heck, I wasn´t even born back then! Doesn´t matter - I want the smell of a time gone by where everything was near, when all the houses in the woods were populated by strange people, where every little dirtroad was travelled by buses with people on their way to town to shop for groceries or a new hat, where the small railroad was used to move small things and nicely dressed people not talking in cellphones - a time when everything got to take it´s time. Since I am an avid modeller, with a lot of airplanes, ships, cars, tinsoldiers and so on my mind, it´s now a good time to build a model railroad - a small, slow one - but loaded with memories.

A narrow gauge "G-finka" built from a Rimbo Grande kit