Karlsplatz, Stuttgart, July 2016.
Category: nature
Life in gardens: daisy time
Floe Sallows Saunders, Floe Sallows, Emma Combs Fillman, Lottie Green Langell in a field of flowers in Bayfield, Ontario, date unknown, by Reuben R. Sallows, via Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol Commons on flickr.
See, the grass is full of stars,
Fallen in their brightness. . .— Marjorie Pickthall, from “Daisy Time“
Vintage landscape: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Mary Ball Washington house, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1927, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The house was the last home of George Washington’s mother. It still exists and is open to the public. The garden was restored in 1968 to reflect how it might have looked between 1772 and 1789.
Wordless Wednesday: jardin des sens
A small park for the blind, Besançon, France, June 2016.
Vintage landscape: Thornedale
Sugar maple allée at “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Stafford Thorne is credited with the garden’s design. The estate still exists under family ownership.
