A winding loch-side path disappears into a blaze of autumn foliage beneath a dramatic scarlet sunset sky — "Path by Loch Katrine," the romantic Highland loch immortalized by Sir Walter Scott in The Lady of the Lake (1810), set in the Trossachs of Stirling, Scotland. This early-era card sports an ornate silver-ruled border with a gold beaded inner frame enclosing the oval vignette image, a format highly fashionable in Edwardian-era British publishing. Made in Great Britain under the "National" Series (no. 339) by an unnamed publisher, the card traveled across the Atlantic bearing a one-cent Benjamin Franklin U.S. stamp, postmarked Redding, Iowa, July 22 (year partially legible as 1910 or 1911). A sender named only by initials GKU wrote to his "Dear Mona" — addressed as Mrs. G.K. Ubben of St. Joseph, Missouri — a brief, tender message: "All well. It is raining here. Will be home Friday Eve with Love & Kisses. Your Husband. GKU. 2619 Nuttel Ave."