Shades of the Past

We had to clear a space in the basement for the plumber to get access under the floor. Ian came across this box of pastels which belonged to my father--in-law who was a painter. We reckon that some of them must be over 70 years old. What a treasure!




I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Walter Savage Landor