Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container much beloved cat of the

much beloved cat of the un-named author

And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context

Purchased from a New Hampshire based dealer

and is good for displaying one side for a while then turning it over to show the other

and just perfectly what it is

Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container much beloved cat of theLiving at a time when concern with truth seems ever diminishing, the appeal, to me at least, of things like honestly weathered old wood grows in inverse proportion! And since I found this old thing, a primitive hanging drying rack I presume, at a old school antique shop in the Mohawk Valley in Upstate NY, its humble beauty and lyricism have struck me anew every time I look at it and made it one of my favorite recent finds. (With a kinship in my mind