The Time: Late 1950's
The Place: Nippersink, Wisconsin
This photo must have been taken towards the end of Great-Grandma Gussie's lifetime. She was never this heavy and she looks to be bedridden. My step-grandmother Blanche is looking out the window and there's something beautiful about these two women bathed in the light streaming in. Gussie has the comic section of the Sunday paper in her lap. I can still visualize the colors in the barkcloth that covered the sofa.
Blanche was such a truly sunny personality and I'm sure than her and Gussie had a good relationship. They were probably spending a Sunday afternoon together at the old cottage in Wisconsin.
In my minds eye I see Gussie in her small bedroom, putting on some pearls. Whether this is a real memory or just the way mind's eye pictures her is not clear. She died when I was a young girl and so many years have passed. Still, it's wonderful to think of her getting dressed for church, fastening the pearls around her neck.
10 comments:
I love all of your old photographs. What history!
What a wonderful photograph. You are so lucky to have it.
Such a wonderful photograph...so few are this way...a captured moment...most are staged and comical...this is just delicious.
That is a beautiful photograph and description!
You're making me want to go through old photos!
Beautiful photo.
It's funny how you can remember the barkcloth. It just goes to show you that visual image memory is so powerful. (couple that with scent)
What a beautiful memory. Whether it is real or not, keep it. Cherish it. I love your blog. I found it through you winning the give away.
This is a great photo. They look very happy to me! What neat memories.
I love this, it reminds me of my best friend and I (in thirty or so years ;)
I love stories of women from the olden times and the old sepia photographs are icing on the cake! Vickib501
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