"Corners, Tuesday", Man Holding Hoop, Antique RPPC lake painting t I think this guy

t I think this guy was much loved and well cared for

and are likely a mixed pair--one is a bit grayer in tone and the other flecked a bit more brown--but they are of the same size

Shaped like a gourd

10 1/8" wide x 9" deep x 4 1/2" tall

have something of a menagerie of little animals

"Corners, Tuesday", Man Holding Hoop, Antique RPPC lake painting t I think this guyI feel like this photograph should give rise to a novel.. I at least find it an extraordinary evocative image, all the more so for the "Corners, Tuesday Aug." written in pencil at the bottom, and really want to know the whole story of this man's life. I assume he is training a dog (?) to jump through the hoop he holds so tightly in one hand, with his other hand so perfectly poised it kills me. And then the whole thing taking place over a gnarly barbed