Wicker and wood. (Check out the lamp/table in the lower left corner.)
From the outside: Leonard Mudge residence in Delray Beach, Florida, February 1959. The upper porch is shown above.
Both photos are by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
“Landscape, Rodin’s garden, Meudon, France,” 1905, by Gertrude Käsebier, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The labyrinth at Leonardskirchplatz in Basel, Switzerland, on Thanksgiving Day.
The small square — on a hill spur above the old city center — is next to the 15th century Leonardskirche or St. Leonard’s Church.
The labyrinth was installed there in 2002 from a design by Agnes Barmettier.
On the right side of the sign is a poem, “Labyrinth Spell” by Ingrid Gomolzik, meant to be spoken before entering the circuit: “The labyrinth is a mystery. . . the giant, the path in the middle, the way to ourselves.”
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Torn turned and tattered
Bowed burned and battered
I took untensed time by the teeth
And bade it bear me banking
Out over the walled welter
cities and the sea. . .— Robert P. Baird, from “The Labyrinth“
What’s not to love about Rhubarb? It’s the easiest thing to grow in Alaska and the moose don’t eat it.*
“Rhubarb stalk in southeastern Alaska,” ca. 1900 and ca. 1925, Frank and Frances Carpenter collection, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Rhubarb is a very popular garden plant in Alaska. “That’s because the few long days of summer sun there help rhubarb grow to five feet or more,” according to The Plate.
Want to know more? Check out Rhubarb or BUST, a blog all about growing rhubarb in Alaska.
Celebrate bitter things
after long winter
rhubarbs’ red green stalks
and partial sun. . .— Sheila Packa, from “Rhubarb“
*Renae Wall, from “What’s not to love about rhubarb,” Peninsula Clarion.
World War I victory garden in a formal setting, location unknown,* ca. 1917 – ca. 1920, by Harris & Ewing, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The photo seems to have been taken for the National War Garden Commission, also known as the National Emergency Food Garden Commission.
The organization was created in early 1917 by Charles Lathrop Pack. It sponsored a campaign of pamphlets, posters, and press releases aimed at “arous[ing] the patriots of America to the importance of putting all idle land to work, to teach them how to do it, and to educate them to conserve by canning and drying all food that they could not use while fresh.”
Like it or not, what you do with the land around your house tells the world what sort of citizen you are.
*Harris & Ewing was located in Washington, D.C.
