woman by tree

This one is another of dad's. Mom beside the petrified tree. I feel such nostalgia for these, not for the times per se, but for my parent's being young, traveling around, having a ball. Being alive. I wonder if they have the same evocative power for other people or if they are just pics of people you don't know, like portraits in an antique shop. Is their meaning only for me because I know those portrayed.