The Bigger Picture

Minehead, or Skegness, she never could remember which. A monochrome ‘Box Brownie’ a smirking strange man. She's young and beautiful. They sit on a low seawall, my four-year-old-self between. A passer-by took the image. the lens was held too high only the top of my tussled head is in frame. Despite this she had a copy made. She claimed there were other lost pics of just us, but only this one peekaboo image has kept surfacing, and I always feel twice blessed by that invisible day, in Minehead or Skegness.