Late winter in Parc de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, redux from 2012.
The winter garden: Parmelee house
The conservatory of “The Causeway,” or James Parmelee house, Northwest Washington, D.C., 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The estate has also been called Twin Oaks and Tregaron. Its 1912 house still stands, and some of the land is a campus for the Washington International School.
James Parmelee was a Cleveland financier and co-founder of the National Carbon Company.
More winter gardens are here.
The Sunday porch: St. Mary’s County
“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.
Continue reading “The Sunday porch: St. Mary’s County”
Vintage landscape: yellow plums
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 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!
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