The Sunday porch: St. Mary’s County

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“Lynch Farm, St. Mary’s County, Maryland,” 1936 or 1937, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

You can scroll through over a year’s worth of Sunday porches here.
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Vintage landscape: yellow plums

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Yellow plums inside the conservatory at Blizhniaia dacha, Kyshtym, Russia, by Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, 1910, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Prokudin-Gorskiĭ made early color photographic surveys of the Russian Empire between 1905 and 1915.

Vintage landscape: the old bell

Old bell as flowerpot, Georgia, HABS, LoCOld farm bell as planter, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, May 1936, by L.D. Andrew, via Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Have a happy 2015!

Thanks for stopping by

13 Kigali, by enclos*ure, June '14. . . to all my readers in 2014.

Our garden in June (the photo above, as well).
Our garden in June (the photo above, as well).

I’m also happy to welcome some new visitors thanks to Fine Gardening’s blog, Garden Photo of the Day, which has featured our Kigali garden for December 30 and 31 (and New Year’s Day).

This morning in our garden. The sky is overcast; the rainy season  has not quite come to an end.
This morning in our garden. The sky is overcast; the rainy season has not quite come to an end.

We’re down to our last week in Rwanda; next stop: Germany — where it’s been snowing for the last four days.

Happy New Year to you all!

The winter garden: under the palms

Hotel dining room, Library of CongressHotel Seneca, Pompeian room, Rochester, N.Y.,” between 1908 and 1915, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

More winter gardens are here.