Old Cigar Box with Fabulous Carved Flying Squirrel on Top screaming bird and all lovingly bordered with

and all lovingly bordered with flowers and leaves and birds and flourishes and "forget me nots"

my favorite part being the yellow webbed feet against green painted base but the expressionistically done black detailing on the wings is pretty good too

The surface ranges from a shiny midnight blue to a dark mossy green to a stony matte black with a terrific texture

which has softened the color

and find this one both exquisitely beautiful in the way it is rendered and quite poetic in its perfect matter of factness

Old Cigar Box with Fabulous Carved Flying Squirrel on Top screaming bird and all lovingly bordered withPure joy and delight finding this one yesterday in New Hampshire I'm just sorry that photos don't do justice to this fabulous red flying squirrel! The box is an old wooden cigar box, left in tact but for the lid which was very energetically carved into all over (and colored with some crayon markings too), with the squirrel the marvelous focal point, its front paws about to hit one edge and its hind leg and fluffy tail the other. On its back is written