Antique Sepia Toned Rattlesnake Photograph antique handmade broom broadly smiling and waving bear

broadly smiling and waving bear

Very French

I just love the image of this lovely

and I've come to think of her as the 'woman in the dunes' with thoughts of Beckett and Paul Bowles

I've become a huge fan of these old wooden Czech "ramp walkers

Antique Sepia Toned Rattlesnake Photograph antique handmade broom broadly smiling and waving bearI can't imagine encountering a rattlesnake and doing anything other than quietly backing away, but some brave soul managed to take this photograph long ago. It was mounted on card, and then much more recently someone taped it to cream paper, from which is is easily removed. I really like how closely cropped the the image is just barely containing the snake and amplifying a sense of immediate danger! Photograph measures 2 7 8" x 1 3 4". As mounted: 6"