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“
Vintage landscape: flowers amicorum
A watercolor by Margaretha Roosenboom from an album amicorum created for the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint on the occasion of her 70th birthday in 1882, via Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
The album (684 loose sheets in an ornamental wooden box) contained drawings, watercolors, photographs, text, and music by friends and admirers.
The contributors represented a cross section of the cultural elite in 19th century Netherlands and Belgium, including many artists who were part of the Hague School.
After Bosboom-Toussaint’s death, the album was eventually given to her hometown of Alkmaar and is now in the collection of the Regional Archief Alkmaar.
To see some flower arrangements created and shared today, please visit Cathy at the blog Rambling in the Garden. She hosts “In a Vase on Monday.”
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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