Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique Maine postcard with some small scattered stains/toning

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

Meant to represent a shorebird I presume

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

NC estate of Dr

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 with some small scattered stains/toningJust 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