Milking Time, Buckets and Stools and Towels in Hand, Antique Scandinavian Photo brass vessel and the careful framing around

and the careful framing around both of them and the front door

it has that particular feel and I keep thinking surely I've seen this house before

as it was stored when I found it

but it stands up steady on its own just as it is

and a patch of spotting left of the far left owl

Milking Time, Buckets and Stools and Towels in Hand, Antique Scandinavian Photo brass vessel and the careful framing aroundIt took me a minute to put it together, but the buckets in the hands of these very strong looking women are milk pails, and in the opposite hand each holds a milking stool along with a bright white towel. (What the men are up to I'm not quite sure, but surely there is no shortage of things to do.) No young milk maids here, but rather quite sturdy and wise women, with wonderful life worn faces and postures and some marvelous stripes over stripes on the