Several years ago, our neighbor called to say that an oil painting he found on Ebay looked like it had been painted from our backyard. He was curious enough to drive to Brooklyn to get a closer look. What he found in a dusty backroom was a frameless painting in significant disrepair. Still, he convinced us to buy it (really). After having the painting cleaned and repaired, and outfitted with a handmade gilded frame, we discovered that it was a signed Alfred Ordway (a prominent Boston based landscape painter in the mid 19th century) - and indeed, he sat in our backyard to paint it. Gray sky days like today remind me of the painting, which hangs proudly right where it was created 150 years ago.
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