Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene pen and ink drawing And seems to me a

And seems to me a lifeguard

and it seems to me likely the oldest too

Six layers of wood on most of it

Part of what I think makes it great is its utter impracticality--this thing weighs about 10 pounds

A bit of dust under the glass

Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene pen and ink drawing And seems to me aPresumably done by a child long ago, I find this watercolor really marvelous, and quite sophisticated feeling, too. I take the scene as an open air market or fair, with all the figures moving along the center aisle drawn in profile, almost all facing in one direction, while all the figures hosting booths (none looking super happy about it) are drawn facing front as if just hoping some of these walkers will stop to visit them, but feeling pretty lonely