Our backyard this weekend.
First spring mow
Our backyard this weekend.
Category: garden design
On a terrace
Also from France, by Eugène Trutat . . .
“Portrait de famille sur une terrasse,” 1901, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr.
Topiary seat
“Deux femmes assises dans un jardin” (two women sitting in a garden), France, between 1859 and 1910, by Eugène Trutat, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr.
On this clipped green throne, she could take in the sun and still be protected from the chilly winter or early spring breezes.
We can make do with so little, just the hint
of warmth, the slanted light.— Molly Fisk, from “Winter Sun“
The Sunday porch: Silver Lake
“Log house at Silver Lake, Akron, Ohio,” between 1905 and 1909, by Illustrated Post Card Co., via Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University Libraries Commons on flickr.
. . . I care less and less
about the shapes of shapes because forms
change and nothing is more durable than feeling.— Terrance Hayes, from “What it Look Like“
Life in gardens: front lawn pose
The photographer’s daughter, Florence Sallows, photographing her little sister, Verna, and a small dog, date unknown, by Reuben R. Sallows, via Huron County (Ontario) Museum and Historic Gaol Commons on flickr.
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