ROCK IN! 1908 Postmarked Real Photo Postcard, Branchport, NY primitive dice I can never leave folios

I can never leave folios of school drawings like this behind--even as some of the exercises featured have become familiar to me from having handled a number of them

but I think these just add to its marvelous aura

All sorts of interesting contexts to hang this one in

10 3/4” t x 8 3/4” l x 6 3/4” w

as if to mark the edges

ROCK IN! 1908 Postmarked Real Photo Postcard, Branchport, NY primitive dice I can never leave foliosSuch a fun one. I have not done a very deep dive but a quick search pointed me to Frog Rock in Eastford, CT, a glacial boulder painted to resemble a frog in 1881 by state legislator Thomas J. Thurber, who thought its natural shape resembled a squatting frog. This frog painted rock does NOT appear to be that one, but suggests a late 19th early 20th century trend toward painting boulders to resemble frogs, perhaps especially common in Connecticut! And