Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign sentence building game holding large spools of thread

holding large spools of thread

but is a thing of beauty that commands plenty of attention just on its own

and with great whittled points at the ends

but he's such a sweet thing I thought him well worth the effort

etc--would attach at their back to a wooden rod

Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign sentence building game holding large spools of threadThe way my mind works, this old McFalls arrow sign made me think about the ubiquity of "falls" of all sorts, literal and proverbial McFalls, like McMansions, etc.) and I really love how rather than miles at the arrow end there are now just black paint drips, as if McFalls had fallen off the map, and also itself sort of evincing the gesture of a fall. The McFalls in question is in fact Mechanic Falls, a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, which is near