“Portrait of woman with infant,” ca. 1900, probably near Sydney, Australia, via Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum Commons on flickr.
You don’t usually see such smiles in Victorian photos.
In the picture below, you can see a little more of the garden and admire the woman’s beautiful sleeves and collar.
Technically, because Kigali is a few degrees south of the equator, it is early summer here.
But — given that the temperature is almost always in the 70ºs or low 80ºs — it is more relevant that we are almost three months into the end-of-the-year rainy season.
In late October, I came back from five weeks in the U.S. to rampant growth in all the planting beds. Now, I need to wade in and do some serious cutting back all over.
To see what’s blooming for other garden bloggers, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens here.
“Children swinging on pier rope at beach,” between 1900 and 1920, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
“Children swinging on maypole, La Forge, Missouri. Project school at Southeast Missouri Farms,” August 1938, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Girl swinging, Woodbine, Iowa, 1940, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
