Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green Laura smily but the way paint holds

but the way paint holds to wicker seems especially good--and even better for the woven patten of warp and weft

This watercolor

I have lots of love for the person who created this whimsical construction--no small effort

and then one more on the toe and two on the sliding lid

which I imagined was tiny

Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green Laura smily but the way paint holdsAs sometimes happens, I had never found one of these old spinning toys until on a recent trip to Pennsylvania where I found a pair, one with intersecting rings like this (that one a bit longer than this), and one with a spinning bird. Then last week at a shop near Brimfield, this one! Hold it flag side down and the rings drop to that end, then turn it right side and they spin down, circling one another. Quite a joy. And feels an apt one to wave at