The Sunday porch: storefront

Store porch, D. Lange, Library of CongressCountry 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.

The Sunday porch: the collector

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Farm House, Crowell’s Cross Road, Halifax County, North Carolina, between 1935 and 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Still, as I went about my potting on a glorious afternoon, one small treasure after another, the world of nature that is so terrible and so beautiful appeared only in its sweetest aspect.

— Henry Mitchell, On Gardening