Company is coming today

Some of the ladies I used to work with at the quilt shop are coming today for pizza and fun. I have a couple errands to run before they get here so today I will show you an old picture.

This picture was taken in May, 1893. My grandmother on my father's side is the girl seated in the front left with her hands on her knees. She is 10 years old in this picture. She died when my dad was 6 years old, in the influenza epidemic in 1920, so I never knew her.
I guess the photographers never said "smile" in those days. They are such a somber bunch!