A young stag peers through birch trunks and summer foliage with wide, liquid eyes — frozen in a moment of woodland alertness rendered with the lush, painterly naturalism that made Viennese artist postcards of the Edwardian era the gold standard of the form. The delicate interplay of dappled light through silver-barked birches, the careful rendering of velvet antler nubs just beginning to form, and the warm rufous tones of the deer's neck fur all bespeak a painter of considerable skill. The card is signed in the image by Leo Gastes Lovik, Wien XIII — placing the artist in Vienna's 13th district, Hietzing, a prosperous neighborhood of artists and intellectuals. On the back, a message from Paul reaches his Cousin Hattie in Olympia, Washington, with worries about an unanswered letter and the cheerful news that Hazel is working as a doctor — mailed from Rockford, Washington on August 7, 1908.