Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present and heartened by a sense

and heartened by a sense of tides turning toward a more optimistic vision for the future

There appears to be an old repair just to the base (a re-glued split) - minor and barely noticeable

so re-positioned it (and easy to do so again if you like

it folds and flips over into chair and desk

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present and heartened by a senseI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5