Anyone coming to visit my house or my mother's house before that may have, at one time, seen the big wooden crate in the garage/basement/somewhere which contained a mysterious, unknown painting of some sort. It came with our stuff from New York back in the late 1970's, and has been dutifully moved from place to place (to place to place to place) but never, ever opened.

In preparation for our recent basement remodel (alas, something else I need to blog about), we decided we would open up everything that was ours. We did and the last item on the list was this large wooden crate containing this mysterious picture.

To give a little perspective on how long this has been in this crate, this crate was made out of solid wood. Think large pallet, but constructed around the picture (which is about 72" by 42"). And a pallet built by someone who made furniture. The crate proved quite difficult to get open. About 30 minutes with a hammer, pry bar, and pliers. But amazingly, after all those years of indifferent storage, the picture finally made it out. And completely intact. Properly mounted and framed (which probably cost 10x what the picture is worth), here's the result on the wall in our dining room - it's quite pretty and was definitely worth the effort to haul around all these years.



Of course, this framing wasn't without a little adventure. After getting it back from our framing store, the picture sat on the wall for about 36 hours. Then unceremoniously fell off the wall - the framers having made a small mistake and attached the hanging wire too close to the edge of the frame. However, that mistake corrected the picture now adorns the wall in our dining room - and will do so for the next few months until we sell our house.