We have two wonderful photos in our stairwell, framed and enlarged from their original 4×6 size. I’ve been looking for those small originals for a long time, and my sister just sent me a copy of her girls, Emily and Madeline, so that is one out of two! The other one is my nephew Edward and his sister, Elaine. My guess is that these photos are buried in documents somewhere in my dad’s office, or mom gave them away as she was doing that a few years before she passed away, stacks of photos, gone. But, if this photo can resurface, the other one can, too.

My dad just found a drawing by his older sister, Ida, who was a very good artist. We know her work as oil paintings, so this drawing was a nice surprise. (1978) I think we only have three of her works, which is sad because she was very prolific.