She was already there when the first guests arrived. No one saw her come in.

This is Bea, the muse of Cider + Cedar. She started as a Good Housekeeping cover from October 1905, painted by an artist who signed only “K.A.” and has not been identified since. Amy kept Bea and let the woods go to cedar-green ink: the canopy, the bark she leans against, the valley behind her, a page of Vermont newsprint laid underneath. Bea stayed in color, along with the branches in her arms and a few leaves that are still falling. They came with her.

She is looking at you. She does not look away first.

She makes excellent apple jam. Sunset Cedar, put up in October, from trees nobody outside the valley has heard of. She may play the violin. There is less agreement on that part.

• Archival quality giclée · fade-resistant inks on fine art paper
• Available in 5×7 and 8×10
• Available unframed, framed (no mat), or framed with mat · see product tabs for sizing details
• Made by hand in Photoshop from public-domain sources · no AI image generation
• Original cover: artist unknown (signed K.A.), Good Housekeeping, October 1905
• No. Five of Fifty · Part of the Cider + Cedar collection by Paperfinch Worlds

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Unframed

• Archival quality giclee
• Fade-resistant inks + fine art paper
• 5x7 / 8x10 / 11x14 ships flat
• 16x20 and larger ships rolled

Framed — No Mat

• Fade-resistant inks + fine art paper
• Real wood frame + glass front
• Removable backside
• Print fills the frame edge to edge — the size you select is the size on your wall

Framed — With Mat

• Fade-resistant inks + fine art paper
• Real wood frame + glass front
• Removable backside
• Your print is one size smaller, centered with a mat border — so the frame on your wall is one size larger than the print you select. Final frame sizes are as follows:

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