Woman with Back Turned, Oddly Placed Undertakers Sign, Friends High Above, Antique Mounted Photo antique fortune telling cards or with some wooden soldiers

or with some wooden soldiers nearby

) I love it for that ambiguity

The Winter's Day

one tiny nick in the wood on the lower lip of the bottom figure and light surface wear consistent with age

so I had to rescue it and hopefully shepherd it forward

Woman with Back Turned, Oddly Placed Undertakers Sign, Friends High Above, Antique Mounted Photo antique fortune telling cards or with some wooden soldiersWhat a curious spot for undertaker's sign though, looking way up at the high ledge, where looking closely one can spot a couple standing, perhaps not! I love the combination of furniture and undertaking, and the slogan "we do what we say we will do" (one would hope!), and this woman with her back turned, whether reading the sign or calling to her friends high above we will never know. Vast, enduring earth punctuated by tiny, temporal humans requiring