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Just noticed, that grgr-grandma's pic is much larger than grandpa's - hope that is not too much of a problem.

Just to compare it: Don't you think too that the separate pictures where drawn from this photo below?


Florian

You're right, Carol, when one looks at the original photo, you might get a humoristic impression.

But here's the story that's connected with the picture:

Great-great grandfather was a bavarian squire.

One day, all the servants and maids went working on the fields. This day, the squire insisted, that he would go to a field far off on his own. He had a plough and a horse with him.

Later that day, a thunderstorm was coming and all the servants and maids went home. Who wasn't there, was the landord. Everybody thought he would have already been home. They started searching for him with oillamps since it was becoming dark. They went to the field where was thought to have worked. They found the plough and the horse in the middle of the storm, but the landlord could not be found.
They continued searching for him and asked in the village nearby - nobody had seen him.

Later a group of people went to the next town. Late in the evening they found him in a church. He was lying on the floor under a cross and was crying, but didn't speak at all. He was brought home and they called for the doctor. Even the doctor couldn't tell what had happened.
His constitution didn't change and the family had to send him to a sanatorium. He died there not long after. And the mystery what had happened on that day on the fields could never be solved.

The story, which I first heard from my grandfather, when I was a child, is kind of spooky. Whenever I see that photo, I have to think about it and for that reason, this humoristic aspect of it, didn't really fit to what's behind the photo. The more I thank you all, who have worked on the photo.

Great-great grandma, by the way, must have been a very strong woman, and continued leading the manor alone.

Florian

Thank you guys! That already looks way better than the original!

Thank you all for working on my photo.
The results are outstanding!