Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present Both the shapes and the

Both the shapes and the placement of those dots is wonderfully irregular

and heartened by a sense of tides turning toward a more optimistic vision for the future

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One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

I find it curiously compelling

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present Both the shapes and theI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5