Charles Weatherbee Chickens, Charlestown, NH, Many Times Satisfying Old Mounted Silver Print folk art lighting The top sits just slightly

The top sits just slightly back from the edge of the bottom

) I am not certain the age but definitely fairly old--I'd guess early 1900s--and all appear to be addressed to Louise

One extra included

and ambiguity to whether our man is being attacked

Charles Weatherbee Chickens, Charlestown, NH, Many Times Satisfying Old Mounted Silver Print folk art lighting The top sits just slightlyI love this photograph very much, and will be very glad to keep it for myself. With these many dozens of little chicks looking like large puffs of freshly picked cotton inside their wide and low wood framed pen, the geometries of which, enhanced by the honeycomb patterns of the netting, I find hugely satisfying. And also evocative of bees in a hive, and babies crawling around in crib a swarm of life and activity within a confined space that feels like