Now this description is a little better, right? Since the gray eyes were listed in 1917 and 1920 by two different people, I can probably conclude that he had gray eyes, but I still don't know the shade of gray. Some of my siblings and I as well as my mother all had lighter hair when younger, and as we've aged, our hair has become darker. We all could’ve been described as having light hair as well as having medium brown hair. Sometimes the difference correlating with the season – lighter hair in the summer and medium brown hair in the winter. Could this be the same as with my grandfather's hair? Possibly. Maybe the person who wrote the description down had a different idea as to what was light hair and what was medium brown based on their experiences or exposure to that color of hair. To say that I was pleased with this expanded description of my grandfather is an understatement. Furthermore, at the time, this was only the second passport application I had ever looked at, and I was completely shocked at what I found further down on the application. There was a photo of my grandfather. Part of the shock was from the fact that the Eirst ever passport application that I had looked at didn't have a photograph. So, I hadn't been looking for one. The other part of my shock at Einding this photograph was that I'd never seen my grandfather before. He passed away twenty years before I was born, he and my grandmother had divorced, and my mother was not close to him. So, I was completely shocked to see him staring back at me. Albeit from a photocopied black and white photo where half of his face is shadowed, but it's a photo of him nonetheless. In comparing his description with his photo, I can't tell the shade of his gray eyes, but I can see his oval face, his regular nose, and his natural mouth and chin. They are right there. One added bonus of having the description and the photo is that they compliment one another. From his photo, I can't discern his height, his eye color or hair color, his mole on the back of his neck, nor the scar on his leg. Likewise, from the description, I can't discern how he wore his hair, nor the fact that he, at least once, wore a bow tie.
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