Wandering Around

I've got to admit, some of these titles I come up with are pretty meaningless.  So, I don't know what's going on here.  There's a large wooden mallet on the blanket in the lower center of picture.  A little big for a tent peg, but that's the only obvious use I can see.  The two men have their outdoors clothing on, while the two women are in skirts, that old, weird thing were women hiked dressed for a day on the boulevard.   There is a stamp on the back, "PASSED BY U S ARMY EXAMINER 20222"  Clearly from the World War 2 era.  But, sent from a states side military base or from the European occupation? 

In the Camps

Three Asian ladies, standing in the snow, looking none too happy.  I almost passed on buying this photo, then I turned it over and looked at the military censorship stamp.  I couldn't help but wonder if this snapshot was taken in one of the World War 2 Japanese interment camps.  Certainly places like Tule Lake in northern  California and Heart Mountain in Wyoming were more then cold enough for lots of snow.