Country store with rough tree trunk columns, Person County, North Carolina, 1939, by Dorothea Lange for U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Vintage landscape: mums
A display of chrysanthemums in a Central Experimental Farm greenhouse, Ottawa, ca. 1920s, photographer unknown, via Library and Archives Canada (under CC license).
Vintage landscape: persimmon
“Kaki ni kirigirisu” (Grasshopper eating persimmon), late 19th c. reproduction of original early 19th c. meiji print, by Katsushika Hokusai, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Life in gardens: Oslo, Norway
Frognerparken, Oslo, ca. 1921, by Kristian Berge, via Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (The County Archives in Sogn go Fjordane) Commons on flickr.
The Sunday porch: catching up
A repeat porch from October 2014. . .
“Snapshot, two women sitting on the front porch of a house, unidentified,” ca. 1912-1934, by Michael Francis Blake, via David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Libraries Commons on flickr.
Blake was one of the first African-American studio photographers in Charleston, South Carolina. His collection at Duke consists of 117 photos in an album entitled “Portraits of Members.”
. . . our effort to open the gift of the world,
our hope to find years
in this box we tear apart.— Allan Johnston, from “Evening Conversation“
enclos*ure 