Heirlooms

I've blipped the clock before. It was a wedding gift to my parents.

The portrait is of C's maternal great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Morton Witten Bottimore, and it was painted sometime around 1850. It was hanging in C's sister's house in Raleigh, North Carolina. C had the painting shipped here during her last visit after her sister's death.

C has had the basket a long time. Here's the history of it, in her own words:

In October 1865, 27-year-old Rosalie Virginia Johnson Grayson (2/9/1838 - 3/25/1911) put her hand in her "darning basket" to get out some socks to darn, whereupon her hand felt a snake! Her child, my mother's paternal grandmother, Cynthia Mary Grayson, was born two months early due to her mother's scare.