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

Guard the mind and the hand

Fluffy chickens

" "A man may be known by his company

and the meter's made possessive--all the more so for the fact that those apostrophes were cut down by hand from other letters so had plenty of time to be considered

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