horse and buggy days

Lovely photo of Charleston, SC on front cover of old Sandlapper magagine.  My Grandfather James drove a carriage much like this.  He bought a Model T, but one cold morning he couldn't get it to crank when he needed to go into Richmond.  He used his carriage and horses ever after that, much the the chagrin of his youngest son, my Uncle, who wanted to have the latest modern gadget like any young person today.  For sale here

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Interesting little book about Japan right after WWII, religion, economy, people, photos

piano keys

This view of the back porch at  Ashtabula Plantation reminds me of piano keys.

sometimes

sometimes you just have to stop at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and have a cherry coke

the sophistication of chairs

garden loot

some of the summer's loot

Elton John

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Look how young he is here!

Cigar Ads

Interested in some old Cigar advertising?
They cashed checks, too

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talk

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nearly zombies

Many hours were spent recently in a salon watching my daughter's bridesmaids get hair and makeup done for The Wedding.  Disembodied heads were spotted in a back room floating above the refrigerator.  Customers who didn't pay their bills?

Walter de la Mare

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I loved Walter de la Mare when I was growing up.  He had a way of creating visual images for me

"Swiftly, silently now the moon
walks the night in her silver shoon."

I had to illustrate a poem for a high school English class and chose this one.  The teacher argued with me about the word shoon.  She thought I made it up.  I had to show her the original out of this book before she would believe me.  My dad liked de la Mare and used to read to me out of this collection.  I still like it and him, but because we may have to move, I need to downsize and some things, although they still have precious memories, need to go.  Lots of good material in this book.

Christmas in July

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lines

I am fascinated by the way the red painted lines make great sweeps of wings on the tarmac.  And how the activities of day to day leave their marks on what seems to be unyielding stone.  Too often I feel my  activities go unmarked, but perhaps if insensate concrete can remember the passage of airplanes, I am noticed.

view

big fluffy clouds flying without effort mock hydrocarbon eating planes

Brahms

I used to play these, but life and a melanoma which caused a big chunk to be taken out of my arm and now a job loss and possible move intervened.  so you can have a chance at them.  Please.

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tooth loss

Had to go to the dentist this morning.  It was afternoon before I exited.  The dentist and assistant worked through their lunch hour for me.  Something that makes me feel a little better about myself.  That may be I have some value if someone was willing to do that.  I knew going in that it was a distinct possibility I might loose a tooth.  Not that I take bad care of my mouth, usually at cleanings I get compliments.  I had x-rays the last time I had a cleaning and nothing was amiss, so this must have developed since then..

I have had pain for a month, but with the wedding and husband's job woes and loss, I ignored it.

I don't mind much loosing a tooth, I've already lost a thyroid, a large chunk of my arm, my appendix and most of my self esteem.

This problem was caused from an old filling that resulted in nerve  decay and finally an abscess.

Bad as it was to loose a tooth, it was healing to have some attention paid to me.  Hasn't been much of that around here lately for various reasons.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not addicted to pain and don't have Munchhausen's, but I can see how it could happen.

Art Songs

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Our big boys

Do you think they like to sleep in the suitcase so I won't leave? so I will take them with me? because they like the size?  or maybe just to make sure a little bi of them travels with me so I won't forget them?

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Hazel Cobb's Sonatina Album

lovely old sonatina album available here:

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Bluenose

lovely rare old photographic postcard of the Bluenose, a famous sailing ship out of Nova Scotia.

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Piano

This old piece of sheet music seems to be rather rare.  See it on ebay at

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wedding?

daughter just got married.  is my glass half full or half empty?  It looks pretty good in this photo, but I'm not sure that it is accurate.  2 weeks before the massive event, husband lost his job.  this photo was from the rehearsal dinner, i had to leave the actual wedding reception because i could not stop crying despite taking the pills that were supposed to help with that. 


i simply ran out of the ability to meet and greet people with a smile and make pleasant chat with that black monkey of financial worry sitting heavily on my shoulder biting my brain.
i stopped being able to cope.

School Daze

With the strange weather everyone seems to be having, it may be too early to think about Fall.  Yet this weekend when I'm dealing with triple digit temperatures, I'll try to cool down by remembering those fall days when the air was crisp with the scent of leaves, the sky was robin egg blue but not pitiless.  This is from a 1959 cookbook published by the Unitarian Church of Cincinnati, Ohio.  In the days before computers, this was put together on mimeograph paper.  Not the easiest stuff to work with, as I remember.  Kudos to the ladies who were so determined to share their good times and recipes.

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Wilde

odd image from a book of the sayings of Oscar Wilde

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a bit of nostalgia

Walking toward us from the past, a lovely couple.
Don't they remind you of Superman and Lois Lane?  Going out on a date, to a movie?  No to the polls

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1950's St. Peter's Church bulletins

These church bulletins could really use a good home.  They were important enough to my Aunt to save, they existed quietly in her makeup bag from the time she brought them home, through a stay with her sister in Lexington, a long rest in the back of my father's closet after she died.  When I cleaned out his house I brought them home with me, hoping I could find her son and return them to him.  Both my father and his sisters have been gone for a long time now and none of us have been able to trace the son.  So I'm hoping someone will see them and want them and keep a little bit of my Aunt's memories alive.  She was a sweet lady who had a tough life.

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This is from the front of a lovely little book I picked up at an estate sale.  I am especially attracted to items from other countries as they bring it home to me just how large, wonderful and diverse the world is. This book was designed conceived and printed before I was born, before even, my parents were married.  Lovely thing, still as beautiful as when it was made.  Wish I could say the same about myself!

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lovely, lovely lovely
Central Bohemian Highlands
I feel as though I've taken a trip without leaving my chair.
How is that for not adding to my carbon footprint?
Although I would like to know how the place smells and what the wind sound like coming across the grass.

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I have an old scrapbook full of photos that don't belong to my family.  The family was from New Orleans and the first page says "This book is dedicated to my mother Emilie Teissier Dow 1875-1968.  She saved and identified all pictures in this collection, she knew and loved them all. I bequeath it to my descendants.
Marguerite Teissier Dow McEnerny.

When I have time I will scan and post photos, just not able to at the moment.

If you have come to this site after googling these names, please contact me.  Thank you.

Just think how we have evolved from this model.  I must admit it has loads of charm.  Why do love old things so much.  Has anyone done a study to find out why some people are so attracted to vintage?

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chock full of helpful advice, information and illustrations

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fascinating mid century book

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from a book of Vietnamese Folk tales and legends

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Ocean water movement from The Sea Around Us 

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lovely lady

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Couldn't get to Japan this year?  Here's a chance to travel through both time and space to mid century Nagoya.  

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sweetest little book from Occupied Japan

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Such a lovely, graceful picture from the cover of a book on Kabuki Drama 

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Jacksonville,. Florida in the middle of the century
from this book
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Mid-Century

Another photo, this time of small town American in mid-century.  Doesn't it remind you of Back to the Future?  Can't you just see Marty on his skateboard rolling down this street?

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Chicago circa 1950's

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goodies

lots of fears about spending money but still some recreation must be had. found some local garage sales and for $3.05 found these to take apart and refashion.

rain after rainy day here, not that I am complaining, it beats the heat all hollow