The garden at Weilmoringle sheep station, Weilmoringle, New South Wales, 1910, by Edward Challis Kempe, via Trove of the National Library of Australia.
Tag: chicken wire
The Sunday porch: Mt. Sylvia
Unidentified family at Mount Sylvia, Queensland, ca. 1901, photographer unknown, via State Library of Queensland Commons on flickr.
The Sunday porch: the begonia
“Woman standing beside potted begonias on porch, message from Rosa to Alice on back.” Via the Samuel Bell Maxey Collection of the Texas State Archives Commons on flickr.
Beautiful plant. Conditions must have been ideal on the porch. Or was it recently evicted from the living room for taking up too much space?
Unfortunately, Rosa’s message to Alice is not revealed. A thank you note for the original cuttings? Or just a little gardening conversation/showing off?
I’m also curious about whether the chicken wire all along the front railings was supporting vining plants or keeping animals (or even chickens) back.
The Archives’ photostream gives no information on the photographer, location, or date for this image. The Samuel Bell Maxey Collection includes the late 19th and early 20th century photographs of the Maxey family of Paris, (northeastern) Texas.
Royal animals
We visited the Tower of London during our September travels, and I really enjoyed these sculptures by artist Kendra Haste, representing the animals of the “Royal Menagerie,” who lived at the Tower for over 600 years.
The baboons, lions, elephant, and polar bear are remarkably life-like, especially considering that they are made out of chicken wire (with a steel armature within). Haste was commissioned to create the animals in 2010, and they were installed in 2011 as part of the Tower’s “Royal Beasts” exhibit. They will remain in place for 10 years.
There’s an interesting short video of Haste at work here.
The first animals at the Tower were lions (1210). An elephant arrived in 1255. In 1832, when attacks on visitors and staff could no longer be ignored, the animals were moved to the London Zoo.
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