In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame forest green I thought they would make

I thought they would make great paperweights

structural sound

with sharp points to spear and hold the meat on one side

which I always gravitate to

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame forest green I thought they would makeA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at