Nice kitty

Brian Brake in the garden (looking a bit apprehensively at what I think is a cat), probably Wellington, New Zealand, 1927-1928, photographer unknown, via Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa.

Brian grew up to be an internationally recognized photojournalist.

The Sunday porch: cats’ day

Everyone gets a rocking chair. . . .

Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Powell on their front porch, Harrisburg, Oregon, 1909, from the Gerald W. Williams Collection, via OSU (Oregon State University) Special Collections & Archives on flickr.

Today is National Cat Day in the U.S.

Life in gardens: the cottage

1886-by-c-kerry-via-national-library-of-australia

“Three children and a white cat in the garden of a thatched house, Australia, ca. 1886, by Charles H. Kerryvia National Library of Australia Commons on flickr.

Vintage landscape: oh, that old thing. . .

clothes line and ancient standing stone in Sweden, 1949, Swedish Natl Heritage BoardBackyard prehistoric standing stone supporting a section of clothesline, Borgholm, Sweden, July 1949, by Mårten Sjöbeck, via Swedish National Heritage Board Commons on flickr.

There appears to be another stone in the neighbor’s yard, on the right side of the photo.

The Sunday porch: Tasmania

Christmas scene on porch, via Tasmanian Archives on flickr“Children beside a Christmas tree,” ca. 1910s, via Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons on flickr.

I think this snapshot may have been taken by a child — the focus is as much on the toy horse and the cat as on the other children and the tree.