Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, May 7, 2016.
English daisies across the lawn.
Wordless Wednesday: axes
Life in gardens: violets
Mary Heldon, between 1900 and 1920, Friars Point, Mississippi, by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr., via Mississippi Department of Archives and History.* Mary was also pictured in this garden photo by Painter.
I had not thought of violets late,
The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feet
In wistful April days. . .— Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, from “Sonnet“
*Photo cropped slightly by me.
The Sunday porch: Usborne, Ontario
John Cottel‘s Home, Usborne Township, Ontario, ca. 1910, via Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol Commons on flickr.
John Cottel, presumably to the right of the door, was born in England in 1836. His wife was Margaret Turnbull, and they had four daughters, three of whom may be in the photo. There is a much wider view of the house and farm here.
Vintage landscape: willow corral
Moving cattle into a willow branding corral on Ninety-Six Ranch, Paradise Valley, Nevada, October 1979, by Carl Fleischhauer, via American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (all photos here).
Willow corrals are still used on Ninety-Six Ranch. In 2014, Kris Stewart, one of the current owners, told Carl Fleishhauer:
We are concerned with staying with original willow corrals – that is definitely part of Great Basin ranching. They are safer in every way; they have some give to them. And they are the cheapest fencing from a materials standpoint since almost everything is naturally already on the ranch.
Vintage landscape: horseshoes
Horseshoe gate on the Pedroli Ranch, Paradise Valley, Nevada, July 1978, (35mm slide) by Richard E. Ahlborn, via American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress (both photos).
The ranch house gate was made by Pete Pedroli about 1950. It has a counterweight for self closing. . .
. . . and a latch made from a bridle bit.
There’s another photo of the house and gate here, by Carl Fleishhauer.
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