My Grandmother's Living Room

This is an old photograph, taken over 40 years ago, which I found when I was cleaning up.  It is the living room in my Grandparent's farmhouse in Guilford, Connecticut, which I may have taken when I was still in college - it is an old color transparency.  I love this photo for two reasons - the quality of the light in the room with the late afternoon sunshine on the fireplace.  And the other thing is the room itself.  If you look carefully, there are no right angles anywhere in the photo!  The doors and doorways are crooked, the fireplace is crooked, and even though it doesn't show, the floors are uneven.  The original farmhouse was built in 1700 and there have been additions in later years.  In the 1960's they added a furnace, instead of heating the farmhouse from the fireplaces in each room.  The heat of the furnace dried the air in the house, and all the wood in the floors, leaving huge gaps in the planks!  Sadly, the farmhouse is no longer in the family.