The Sunday porch: Lebanon, Oregon

“Filena Jueleen’s Home, Lebanon, Oregon,” 1923, via Gerald W. Williams Collection, OSU (Oregon State University) Special Collections & Archives Commons on flickr.

The Sunday porch: Washington, N.C.

House on Creekmere Plantation, about two miles from Washington, North Carolina, 1936, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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.

Horsham, Victoria

“Henry Smith and family in front of a wooden house with a bark roof at Green Park,” Horsham, Victoria, ca. 1875, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia and Museums Victoria (under CC license).

The Sunday porch: Mulberry, Florida

“Mrs. Cook and Polly parrot on the porch of the family home, Mulberry, Florida,” ca. 1900, via Florida Memory (State Library and Archives of Florida).

A note on the Florida Memory website says that Polly could mimic all the women and children in the neighborhood.