Birds, Pitcher of Flowers, Man in Yellow Pants, Wonderful 1850s Fraktur Watercolor with Full (Detached) Ledger hopi kachina drawing bookplate In nicely aged paint

In nicely aged paint

and with very similar expressions

which wear the stories of their lives on their sleeves--or bottoms

The more time I've spent with this

Birds, Pitcher of Flowers, Man in Yellow Pants, Wonderful 1850s Fraktur Watercolor with Full (Detached) Ledger hopi kachina drawing bookplate In nicely aged paintOh how I wish there were an endless trove of little fraktur watercolor drawings like this out there for me to stumble upon honestly, the brilliance of the colors and boldness of the patterns and just pure full of life marvelousness of the birds and bearded man in his yellow pants feel to me as if product of divine intervention! Alas, it's a rare moment. This is Pennsylvania German, done on the reverse side of the detached cover of a small notebook