Oh my, what a great shot to look back on, these ARE the ones to keep. They look like they enjoyed getting mudded up like that. I remember coming home once as a kid looking like this and my mother hit the roof! She went ballistic because of the laundry.

Ah, to be that young and carefree again... sigh A nice pic to bring back memories of youthful time. Well done!

What fun! A great memory!

Excellent photography and capture, well done..greeting Rocksy

Ahhh, the joys of youth, Mud Pies, Black Eyes and Wise Guys, those were the days!!! Very Cool Photo!!!

those were definitely the days when young and carefree :o)..excellent reminder of the fun times mick

Great memories!

So this is where that phrase "Here's Mud in your Eyes" come from... A fun day it must have been. Aloha

Hosed 'em off...I'm surprised you didn't call in the fire department to wash 'em down. And the mud hole they created, there...jeez, you have a lot of patience...lol But, kids will be kids!! Thanks for sharing.

lol... What a fun shot and super memory Marilyn!! smile

"Mud, mud, glorious mud nothing quite like it for cooling the blood" ... from a song by an old-time UK comedy duo called Flanders and Swann The mud baths in Turkey were great fun ... especially the 'hosing-down' afterwards - you'd be surprised by what was revealed! Mike

This is such a great image! I'm glad you dusted it off and posted it. Nice!

great memories and excellent capture !!

This to me is the best type of family snaps, a nice posed one for the albumn may be nice but these type are GREAT. I love it when the kids get dirty, it reminds me of when I was a kid and got dirty myself. I remember those as happy times, everybody having the time of their lives. I remember going home one time after falling in the local lodge, and my mother screaming at me, 'If you come home drowned dead, I'll half bloody kill you'. She went crazy when I started laughing at what she said, and it wasn't till my sister explained it to her she realised what she said would make anybody laugh. Fantastic capture and what a story, those are worth keeping. So glad you scanned it in and posted it Marilyn. You see what you've done, and it won't be only me that you have stirred memories for. Bravo!!!!! Instant fav.

LOL Excellent capture, fond memories no doubt!

looks like fun wonderful capture warm hug, Linda

an indelible memory captured on film

HAHAHHAHA well heres to mud in your eye saying lol!!! what a cool capture! I would of got yelled at maybe if I did that lol!

Goodness! A motley crew, indeed! LOL, I am amused to see a girl was involved in this sloppy backyard encounter and was displaying a good sense of humor out of it all. A great shot salvaged from the good old days of yesteryear, Marilyn.

It is so nice that they were able to get excess energy released in a good way.

Being young is great. You don't worry about things like tearing up the grass or keeping out of the mud. All you can think of is having fun and being with friends. marvelous shot.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! What a capture. I'm glad you brought it out and posted it. I love the full-on, up front emotion in this...that youthful glee that tends to fade as years go by...capturing it is such a wonderful thing and it's a great reminder that we can hold on to it and feel snippets of it in our "older" or "more adult" lives.

Looks like they had fun! I remember doing things like this

Ah yes I remember those days when playing in the mud was just fun, not knowing its good for ya skin lol Great shot :)