Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida I really love the production

I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees

served up in a consomme cup decorated with what I'd guess is meant to be a coat of arms

Pencil and watercolor on lined paper

Completely rusted but structurally very sound and stable

were usually made from a solid piece of wood

Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida I really love the productionThis is a very simple one as far as bee boxes go nothing more than a four sided box with two plates of glass held in grooves, to slide open or closed for catch or release. There are rows of old nail holes in the wood, so perhaps there was once some sort of frame around it, but maybe more likely the wood was repurposed from something else. I love these old bee boxes for the way that they embody individualistic solutions to the problem at hand (in this