Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame antique iron sign It's that time of year

It's that time of year when a pocket flask seems most in order

branches of cherry blossoms or red berries

There is a longish horizontal hairline crack in the wood on the right side and a shorter one above it

come spring

it appears to be signed on the wooden seat below

Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame antique iron sign It's that time of yearI love an old naive ship drawing or watercolor, and this I think is both a very charming and unusual example, with the ship circumscribed in a a circle, as if being viewed through a scope. (Of course this makes me imagine the person drawing it with pencil in one hand while holding a scope in the other, going back and forth working hard to capture all the details!) With an American flag waving proudly from the stern and sea below. There is pencil