There's a fairly long story that goes with this, but I'll save it for the gallery, if this gets there. Suffice it to say, that this house was where my Aunt and Uncle, and my 5 cousins lived in Arkansas when I was a child. Off to the left of the picture, is a huge creek, where my cousin Jerry (now deceased) and I, had some Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn type adventures - playing in the swimming holes, pulling each other out of quicksand, dealing with snakes and other creatures,etc..Just wonderful memories.
They had to move to California 50 years ago, and it was only a year ago that I got in contact with my cousins Joyce. Since then we have became very close, and stay in contact daily. This place was very special to her,as well as myself, so I am attempting to reconstruct it as it was when they lived there.
This picture was taken 20 years after they moved, so a lot of changes have to be made to get the timeline right. Trees have to be taken out, other trees put in, etc.. I'm also attempting to expand the picture to the front, and to the right, in order to hopefully be able to include some of the cotton field in bloom.
So as not to rely totally on my memory from such a long time ago, I'm sending daily updates to my cousin, so she can correct any errors before I get too far along.
So, here we go..