Ruth Reynold's Six Sweet Bird Drawings 25 inch ruler very sturdy wooden frame--with jointed

very sturdy wooden frame--with jointed corners secured with wooden pins--what I find especially beautiful are the hand-written numbers

I just can't resist things like this

with swirls of holes made by a small nail leading the eye all around the foot

and think they make quite a handsome and happy couple

To my eye just completely fabulous

Ruth Reynold's Six Sweet Bird Drawings 25 inch ruler very sturdy wooden frame--with jointedI found a whole folio of sweet graphite drawings by young Ruth Reynolds of Lancaster County PA depicting a variety of animals, her birds I think my favorites among them, which I'm listing here as a set. (This is all of them.) Done in school I presume graphite on lined paper and what a good thing I think for kids to learn their birds in detail, cultivating future bird watchers and lovers! I'm forever a sucker for drawings of birds, the more naive and