Beautiful Old Mounted Photograph of Girl Showing Off Her Lace painterly vase and a perfect reminder of

and a perfect reminder of why drawings are my favorite things among all things

and specifically our historically romantic notions about the lives of the pilgrims

and phallus peeking out below that terrifically patterned green cloth

it is plenty large to be useful holding all sorts of things

and I've never bought an oil can

Beautiful Old Mounted Photograph of Girl Showing Off Her Lace painterly vase and a perfect reminder ofI love everything about this photograph, which I would guess was taken on the occasion of this wonderful looking girl's First Communion. It looks to me that the (most certainly handmade) lace she is showing off is her veil, draped from the back of her head over the back of her chair, as she must be resting her hand on the chair's corner. What a face, what a wonderfully awkward gesture (look at the placement of her feet), and just perfect the way she