This guy can do anything!

He drew a photo of my beloved Afghan Hound when she slipped away from us too soon. He picked up a photo of my beloved Italian ancestral village, and drew that ... he brought me a sketch of my German shepherd just days after I had to say goodbye to her. Why wouldn't I ask Tom Wills to make a drawing from my favorite photo, aside on my first, and still my most beloved, Arabian?

The photo from which this was made was taken by Patti Fife, who was a Vindicator photographer at the same time I was a reporter there. The setting is Tom Schubert's Vienna horse farm, where I boarded this and several subsequent horses (and sometimes wish I still did, because taking care of a barnful of horses is hard work!).
A lot of "society ladies" have paintings of theirselves over the fireplace. This is as close as I can come -- because I obviously come from a different society! I cannot wait to hang it on the wall!