picture from my childhood...

Perhaps it's because I'm working on a story based on Goodnight Moon, but this afternoon, my mind turned back to a picture that used to hang on my bedroom wall -- one of Edward Hicks' versions of The Peacable Kingdom (he painted about 60 different versions, through his lifetime). On a whim, I wanted to see if I could find the one version that I knew (it's now hanging in Dad's kitchen).

It took a little bit of shuffling through pages, but I did find it, here: Peacable Kingdom, 1845 (though the lefthand side is severely cropped -- the Native Americans in the background are completely cut out of the picture -- boo!). I think that picture had been in my daily view since babyhood, and has shaped my view of what the world is like as much as anything else. So I thought I'd share (more meaningful than a generic quiz meme).

Do you remember what pictures were on your walls as a small child or baby? Do you think any of those pictures still color who you are today?