Conservatory

I took this picture at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia.

Jillie and Isabel Sullivan, Summer 1953

Mama took this picture of Jillie and me beside Mr. Beauvoir's house. You can see behind us where he had a new kitchen put in.

When this picture was taken, Olivia (not pictured), just a year older than me, was already secretly meeting Carson in the woods. I remember that on this particular day Jillie was complaining about her boots. She wanted pink slippers. I said, "Just be quiet and smile." Pink slippers!? Mama held her breath and snapped the photo.

Taken with Brownie Hawkeye.

Jillie

This is a photograph of my sister Jillie. She's the baby of the family, but she's sixteen now. Still, she's the baby to me. I wish that you could see her eyes better. They're mischievous. I love her. She's beautiful.

Father and son

I took this picture of a father and son with my Brownie Hawkeye. It was a hazy day. The boy's father, standing in the garden, was handsome.

The story...

is about friendship, about photographs, about lemon squares.

About Gloria Ricci and Isabel Sullivan and her camera, the Brownie Hawkeye. Isabel Sullivan, one of three sisters, was born November 3, 1939 in Batesville, Virginia.

Her love of picture taking was one of the many things that set her apart from her sisters, from everyone in fact.