Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container much beloved cat of the

much beloved cat of the un-named author

This is a beautiful antique treen box

The lines would have provided guides for writing

And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context

Purchased from a New Hampshire based dealer

Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container much beloved cat of theLiving at a time when concern with truth seems ever diminishing, the appeal, to me at least, of things like honestly weathered old wood grows in inverse proportion! And since I found this old thing, a primitive hanging drying rack I presume, at a old school antique shop in the Mohawk Valley in Upstate NY, its humble beauty and lyricism have struck me anew every time I look at it and made it one of my favorite recent finds. (With a kinship in my mind