Bursting Blooms, Melissa McKinnon

Stumpcraft, 345 pieces. This seemed to have slightly fewer of Stumpcraft's unusual connectors between non-whimsies. The whimsies are flowers and people interacting with flowers. The image is a nice still life with lots of similar colors throughout. 3/5

Paris La Nuit

Liberty, 518 pieces. Difficulty here comes from the broad areas of darkness, though they actually take up less of the puzzle than you might think. I liked the image; unsurprisingly, French-themed whimsies (but no croissant).  3/5

genie in a bottle and dancers

note lady walking dog where the leash is a line between pieces

City Market Sunflower #1

ScrollRight (Etsy seller), 128 pieces. A nice small hand-cut puzzle, with a shiny finish and thicker wood. Pretty image; only one (three-piece) whimsy. Seller has a number of photo puzzles available. 3/5

Songbook, Willy Pogany

Liberty, 425 pieces. An older Liberty cut with pieces that are bigger/subtly different in shape from current Liberty, more like current Peaceful style. 3/5

Porcelain China Plate & Stained Glass window

37 and 47 pieces, Dick Spencer. According to the seller, Spencer was a Massachusetts cutter who made small handcut puzzles. The second one here is double-sided with the same image on each side. Nice little hand-cut puzzles. 3/5

Birds of the Tropics

Liberty, 745 pieces. There's a huge multi-piece bird (puffin? auk?) in the middle! This one had high difficulty because of each of the little pictures--the image was very broken up. Elaborate border as well. 4/5

birb!

birds and an elephant

more birds

Wide Eyed and Innocent

Par, 700. I've only ever done one Par, and it's possible my opinions have changed hundreds of puzzles later, but this one was quite good (as a rental from RAR). Strong construction--the picture from the back was picked up and flipped over--and fewer whimsies than Stave, with fairly difficult assembly because of areas of similar color. A few color line cut pieces slipped out when I turned it.  6/10

The British Isles, National Geographic Map

Liberty, 1090 pieces. Wow--what a challenge! Lots of similarly colored areas and "typical" British activities in the whimsies, along with nods to UK naval history. Loved the golfers. 5/5

note lots of activities along the border, as well as the compass rose

more activities, including writing, proclaiming and fencing

dancing and monuments

paparazzi and boats

golfers

dancers and sheep

Apple Tree, 1912, Gustav Klimt

Liberty, 463 pieces. Another difficult puzzle because of the relatively limited color variation--though there were three major kinds of green, two of them were leavened with red and other colors, making it relatively difficult to group them. Lots of apple whimsies, including a rare partial whimsy, and note the fake "foot" in the tractor that tried to trick you into putting the farmer directly on the tractor instead of falling off of it. 3/5

music; partial whimsy in top R

tractor: the foot-shaped hole precisely fits the foot of the farmer above it

lots of apple whimsies, and one of several trees, and the other half of the partial apple whimsy from above (above main figure with basket)

tree on border (upside down)

another tree (also upside down_