Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique Maine postcard ) An excellent hunting dog

) An excellent hunting dog (and an echo of him in the distance) going after a bird

Meant to represent a shorebird I presume

) And so this curious little drawing

walls and bars constructed around the bank at the heart of it

Fluffy chickens

Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique Maine postcard ) An excellent hunting dogJust a single bloom, but this is among my favorite watercolors of late, just a small perfect thing. A blue rose I believe, labeled what looks like "japonica," which is indeed a type of rose the Kerria japonica, but that as far as I can tell is yellow Blue roses are in fact often used to symbolize mystery or the unattainable, since they do not exist in nature because of genetic limitations, so perhaps here the unattainable manifested! 7" x 5", very