RESTORING 'AUNT LILLIAN', MY GRANDMOTHER'S OLDER SISTER, FROM A FADED, TATTERED OLD PHOTOGRAPH LEFT IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S ANTIQUE, STRAPPED TRAVEL TRUNK....

an hour of work, cleaning up this old, very Victorian, funereal postcard photo of Great Aunt Lillian Cook......As she aged, she became much more beautiful and more sophisticated than her 4 sisters.......