Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box and the chalk drawings on

and the chalk drawings on both sides of the slate--which I believe are quite old--feel extra special to me for having endured

or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends--and of the "old horse

and then this shelf packed with other little dolls and doll house furniture

captivity for the specimens

with very sweet row of painted flowers framing the front door

Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box and the chalk drawings onSo lovely. I've had lots of individual seaweed moss specimens, and a couple of albums of them too, but I've never had, or seen, a very large sheet of them like this, which to my eye has a wonderful sort of wildness and extra visceral feeling to it like the salty sea itself. With tiny cut strips tethering the samples to the page, making it feel especially akin to a page from a large herbarium. A great one to frame simply, exactly as is, striking from a