Red Cross Nurses with Flag, Antique Real Photo Postcard basket with hair and bright red eyes and

and bright red eyes and mouth pointing up to the sky as if howling at the moon

and love it for its great gestural drama--inherent to the porcelain figurine that is its subject

I'm completely smitten with early schoolgirl theorem watercolors

Her head and body were made of of black knit stocking firmly stuffed

) Plus wonderfully naive faces all around

Red Cross Nurses with Flag, Antique Real Photo Postcard basket with hair and bright red eyes andI've said many times that the Red Cross emblem is my favorite logo of all time, and I look for it in all permutations. How happy then to find this old photo of a pair of WWI era Red Cross nurses in their uniforms, holding a red cross flag to boot. (And with a cat at their feet, too!) Wonderful faces on these two women, Latina I presume, with the older looking figuratively if not literally very much the mother to the younger, who looks perhaps a bit