Mom's vase

Dad, I thought you may like to see Mom's black vase now relocated in Melbourne. I like this photo because it has Mom's vase sitting beautifully on the table runner that Smuts and I bought a few weeks ago at the Rosebank Craft Market.

In the background you can also see our hanging elephant that we bought at a night market in Chiang Mai (northern Thailand), a watercolour of the Malay Quarter in Cape Town, another watercolour that we bought from an artist when we were walking on the Great Wall (Beijing, China), and a print of Jim Thomson's house in Bangkok, a historic building which has influenced our taste in furniture over the years. Lots and lots of lovely memories in this one picture. I think Mom would have enjoyed seeing her vase in its new environment!

PS You can't see them but the hippos are on a cabinet just to the left of this picture.