Charles Weatherbee Chickens, Charlestown, NH, Many Times Satisfying Old Mounted Silver Print antique tramp art frame and hand-painted brick pattern around

and hand-painted brick pattern around the base and for the two chimneys

which from what I understand was the generic sticker for glass made in Czechoslovakia

as if to hide sight of them

)  A lovely example

Charles Weatherbee Chickens, Charlestown, NH, Many Times Satisfying Old Mounted Silver Print antique tramp art frame and hand-painted brick pattern aroundI 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