Hello, DU! The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns with: Feminine Beauty in Portraits!

[countryjake]

86. You should have gotten her a monocle...

But seriously, I can sure relate to that...my left eye is a thousand times worse than my right and I can hardly see to do a crossword anymore, without my handy-dandy antique wooden-handled magnifying glass (and a flashlight, at night or on rainy days).

My daughter's grandma ended up being diagnosed with MS, but before that, back in the '70s when the two of us spent whole days taking in a museum, jaunting around NYC, she started having awful troubles with her eyes. Our day-bag always had to include a humongous old magnifying glass and many a time she'd get the hairy-eyeball from one of the security guards, for getting too up-close and personal with a gazillion dollar work of art.

On the other hand, my own mother, who just died last year at the age of 95, could read the fine print on a friggin' coupon without any glasses, at all. While I was back in Ohio taking care of her, I had to hand her the stuff that was too tiny or too faint for me to see.