Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique Maine postcard Guard the mind and the

Guard the mind and the hand

and the fineness and beauty of antique Chinese embroidery is really pretty unmatched

with some small scattered stains/toning here and there on the photo

In major part it is all about those great stencil painted letters

) And so this curious little drawing

Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique Maine postcard Guard the mind and theJust 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