Easter Egg of an Antique Painted Darner original Lantz Nova Scotia mushrooms with horizontal folds that should

with horizontal folds that should flatten out pretty easily if pressed under something heavy and a little staining here and there and along the left edge

with the children and rope pulled taut on the diagonal to the right creating a sort of perfect triangle or pyramid (a la Leonardo)--and

Hours and hours of creative play

Maybe it's me

The chunky scale and improvisatory-feeling forms of the chip carved

Easter Egg of an Antique Painted Darner original Lantz Nova Scotia mushrooms with horizontal folds that shouldI just couldn't resist the old paint on this one so pretty, with that most amazing deep cornflower sort of a blue, and feeling very much like an easter egg, with a handle to boot. As is not too often the case in my experience, the handle here does actually screw off and the egg will then stand on its own. I'd be inclined to stick it in a vase like a flower or maybe lay it in a nest! About 6 inches long or so, I forget to take exact dimensions but the