The Best Elephant Drawing Ever figure eights wearing snow goggles

wearing snow goggles

You know I love dominoes of all sorts--classic

he spent much of his time carving pieces like this in addition to imparting "the art of whittling" to students

but I think this very early ‘90s hand-painted checkerboard makes a pretty strong argument for a more contemporary iteration

I'm pretty sure it came from an old Dutch manuscript

The Best Elephant Drawing Ever figure eights wearing snow gogglesI am silly to part with this one because I think it is about the best thing ever, but I will live with the image of it in my head, and trust that whoever adopts it will love it as much as I do. Perhaps the blue tower in the background is a castle, making this an elephant and castle, who knows? Elephant itself is written twice once in cursive, looking like "Elepht" and then, more faintly, in fraktur type capital lettering below. And then this elephant