French Silver Art Nouveau Slide Locket Mirror Pendant Maple Leaf Moonstone as shades of black

as shades of black

the British Empire extended to the ends of the globe

it does bears the mark ‘XI’ on the back (perhaps for 1911

and brings to mind dappled sunlight on a pebbley stream

French Silver Art Nouveau Slide Locket Mirror Pendant Maple Leaf Moonstone as shades of blackWe have a giant silver maple tree along our driveway. It is the first of our trees to show signs of life in the spring and the first to have its branch tips kissed with color when Summer hands September over to Autumn. Whether you call them, whirlybirds, helicopters or by their scientific name, samara, when they blow off of our big tree in the early summer and spiral down gently to the earth they are a sight to behold. The silver maple leaves on this