Seeds and Pod, Lovely Old Handmade Glass Slide skull and crossbones but which could be a

but which could be a package she is about to fly away to deliver

but  their clothing is suggests they are laborers to me

What sold me on this one is the full page hand-written note on the inside back cover

This guy sure seems to me as if he always existed-- as if he just washed up on the shore one day fully (or almost fully) formed

and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for

Seeds and Pod, Lovely Old Handmade Glass Slide skull and crossbones but which could be aI found this specimen slide and another similar at a favorite New Hampshire stop the other day, which has a back room filled with all sorts of curious things, many of them from old school science departments, labs and the like. I just think it makes for a lovely object with these delicate pods and wispy seeds, and I like the idea of the seeds as suspended possibilities, never released into the wind but still looking ready to take flight. 4" x 3 5 6",