super-tanned portrait with watermelon.......i swallowed the silver spoon.... 1972

 

studying this old photograph, I miss the ring, stolen by Lee Cady; the covered sugar bowl, given to Eve Savage; the silver creamer, stolen by Ann Rhett's boyfriend....Keith Rann; Baccarat vase, broken by Big Boy, the cat; and the 18th C. Ram salt cellar, stolen in a burglary; the tablecloth, given as a wedding gift.......We ate the watermelon!

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