We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy I've had a keen eye

I've had a keen eye out for old barbed wire

reminding one of the lay of the land prior to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican American War in 1848 (the reddish watercolor line on the card demarcates the pre-1848 border)

pure black ink for hooves and ears and eyes

and cubes for periods

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy I've had a keen eyeWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the