One from the Archives

One of my favorite portraits, ever.



Puppy Love

We were all a lot younger then.

: )

This was taken one evening near the South Sandusky boat ramp at Rend Lake. The photo was published in one of our tourism guides, and then I matted it and put it in a frame and gave it to Granny Corse. I also had an 11-by-14 print made, but it did not look as good as the smaller version. (Proving that bigger is not necessarily better?)

The photo ended up amongst Granny Corse’s stuff, God knows where in-between 3 or 4 moves, the final one taking her to a nursing home, where she died last year. Or perhaps she actually died in a hospital, I don’t know; unfortunately, my somewhat brief friendship with her ended several years before she died. By her choice, or perhaps out of necessity; again, I don’t know.

I remember thinking about the photo during one of those moves and wondering if I would ever see it again. Because if I did, I wanted it.