Vintage Butterfly Wall Art Butterfly Metal Sign Animal Familiar Home Decor tree of life jewelry Orange maple leaves blow across

Orange maple leaves blow across the whole scene and gather at the hem of her skirt

blossom overhead

and it holds through the year without reading as a holiday piece

so it works in a shared house where the rest of the practice stays private

Two colors do all the work — black for the cat and the trunk

Vintage Butterfly Wall Art Butterfly Metal Sign Animal Familiar Home Decor tree of life jewelry Orange maple leaves blow acrossOld handwriting behind the wings. A single butterfly is set open winged across what looks like a page torn from an old ledger: brown ink in a looping hand, ruled columns, foxing and water stains. The upper wings are amber and orange with black bars and slate blue tips; the lower pair taper away into long dark tails. Rust coloured flakes and drips are scattered over the paper as though the surface had aged badly in a damp room. Some of the writing