I love this photo of my great grandmother. I love that she looks so happy relaxing in her Adirondack chair with her dog nearby. It makes me happy to relax in my Adirondack chair with my dog nearby too - which makes me feel like we have something in common. I never got to know Great Grandma Sophie (my middle name is Sophia - after her) but my mom has shared many stories about how kind she was and how much she cared about her family and how hard she worked. One time while cooking with my mother I complained about how I had an inexplicable aversion to measuring ingredients whereby my mother told me I inherited that from Sophie, who never measured anything and her food always tasted good, just like mine.
