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

" "A man may be known by his company

Guard the mind and the hand

Fluffy chickens

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

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