Pictures

I love the pictures on my walls and re enjoy them every day. There are pictures that the K C Star photogrhaers took and paintings by a niece, and paintings by two friends. one of three chickens, one of Raggedy Ann, one by brother of Fourth of July but I painted it for when I took it in to be framed the framer had the picture duplicated on film and made it larger as we only borrowed the painting the orgiginal was the property of our nephew,Chris, and he wanted it so I don't know where the original is but I love my copy. Some of the paintings Ray brought back from trips whrn he was on assignments for the paper, some are gifts given to us by artists after he wrote stories about them. One is kind of strange as it is lottery tickets from when Ray was head of the Kansas Lottery. One is an Indian that you have to get at the correct angle to see. Some are emboirded pictures that our daughter Sally made. They are all important reminders of neat things in my life. Some are really big like the leather buffalo in the hall or the painted tapestery in the dining room that has jello marks left over from grand children in high chairs that sat next to it. They are all smaller than the swordfish which is on the basement wall where it is happy. Even Ray did not want to have it upstairs. We have too many circus posters to put up. Our things from China are in our bedroom walls along with all the M & M things I have collected.