THIS ISN'T IT

But we have a picture like this hanging in our dining room. One with a frame that extends the picture.

It's part of the decorating we did when we bought our erstwhile new house in 2003. It's the first, make that second time, I had ever been included in helping to pick out chairs, pictures, other furniture.

I enjoyed it. And my wife actually listened to my advice. Including the purchase of the picture. Others must have liked it, too, because on that same day, two other couples also purchased the picture. Well, one just like it. From a very small shop.

To be fair, the frame wasn't quite as large as the one pictured, the interior not as pronounced, but the view from Tuscany in our dining room runs out into the frame like this one. As an artist friend of ours says, "it flows into the living room".

I'm not that advanced to understand flow, but I don't mind being asked to help pick out some furniture or accessorize. But I'll never be metro enough to go shopping just to go shopping with no intention of buying. I'll never figure that one out.