Scanning, scanning, scanning! Alas, I have completed the photographs! I have also started divvying them up, but I breezed through the 100 manila envelopes and need to get more from the store tomorrow in order to complete that portion of the project.

One of the photos I found extraordinarily compelling was this photograph of my grandmother's godfather's housekeeper. Remember that he was the engineer who photographed much of her childhood. What do you see in this photograph?

I see an unhappy, barefoot, too-young girl. I wonder who wrote the words "very pretty" at the top of the photograph. It is not the godfather's handwriting; perhaps it is my grandmother's.