Mabel is three, gathering pumpkins with her friends, guiding her scooter down the sidewalk, riding the bus with Daddy and matching a pink sweater-sleeve against Mamma's pink tights. Mabel swims, Mabel colors
– all preserved on antique Polaroid film (the stock now in use dates back to 2009
– before the child was born
– when the manufacturing of Polaroid film ceased).