Vintage Bluebird Dinner Plate - Mark Catesby Botanical Series circa 1970s sussex As a woman back then

As a woman back then

Now deemed a classic cookbook

Find that post here

flowers to fencing

this is how you relaxed from the stresses and pressures of the day  - with your Sunset Stitchery crewelwork threads and patterns

Vintage Bluebird Dinner Plate - Mark Catesby Botanical Series circa 1970s sussex As a woman back thenthe Birds, I painted them while alive (except a very few) and gave them their Gestures peculiar to every kind of Bird, and where it would admit of, I have adapted the Birds to those Plants on which they fed, or have any Relation to Mark Catesby, 1730s {HISTORY} From the portfolio of the famed British naturalist, Mark Catesby (1683 1749) comes this beautiful vintage dinner plate featuring a bluebird nestled among branches ripe with berries. Initially