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Vintage landscape: The Kittatinny
“In the grounds of The Kittatinny, Delaware Water Gap, Pa.,” c. 1905, by Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. What a pleasant spot. What do you think they’re...
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Vintage landscape: birds’ house view
“Birdhouse and landscape at an old plantation home [probably this one] near Eutaw, Alabama,” May 1941, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. As I was reading about...
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The Sunday porch: St. Mary’s County
Click to view slideshow. “Lynch Farm, St. Mary’s County, Maryland,” 1936 or 1937, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. You can scroll through over a...
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The fire pit in May
There is a fire pit underneath, awaiting summer cleanup — but I was drawn to the nice arrangement of shaggy grass and logs* (and, of course, the bench and the other beautiful pile of wood in the...
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Life in gardens: Ax-les-Thermes
The walled garden of Chalet Magazin, Ax-les-Thermes, France,” July 1906, by Eugène Trutat, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr. From over the wall I could hear the laughter of women in a...
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The Sunday porch: Savannah, Ga.
“Price Street corner York Lane,” Savannah, Georgia, 1939 or 1944, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The Library of Congress catalogue entry for the...
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Streifzug 6: Esslingen
I’m sorry that there was no Sunday porch yesterday; we were out touring Stuttgart with visitors. In the early evening, we walked through the nearby small city of Esslingen am Neckar, and I spotted this...
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A study in steps: Schürhof, Basel
After I took a number of photos of the hanging plant columns of the Basel Museum of Culture (during our visit at Thanksgiving), I turned my attention to the courtyard around them — the Schürhof — the...
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Life in gardens: on a terrace
Also from France, by Eugène Trutat . . . “Portrait de famille sur une terrasse,” 1901, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr.
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The Sunday porch: Danville, Virginia
Farmhouse on Michaux Plantation, Danville area, Virginia, 1935, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (There are two more views here.) I could not find...
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Life in gardens: Lincoln, Nebraska
Small park in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942, by John Vachon for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Vintage landscape: shady spot
Garden of “As You Like It,” the James Harper Poor House, East Hampton, New York, ca. 1915, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Commons on flickr. Poor...
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Life in gardens: the nap
“Washington, D.C. Government employee taking a nap on a bench in the [U.S. Botanic] Garden,” September 1942, by John Ferrell, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Life in gardens: Aoyama
A very nice playground at a school in Aoyama, a neighborhood of Tokyo, summer 1926, by Roger Dumas, via Archives of the Planet Collection – Albert Kahn Museum /Départment of Hauts-de-Seine. This...
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Life in gardens: tea and talk
“Picnic-style tea ceremony,” Japan, ca. 1900, a hand-colored postcard, via The New York Public Library. It may be a “ceremony,” but I think it’s more likely an informal bite to eat after a long walk...
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My mother’s garden
Wordless Wednesday pictures from an August 2012 post. . . Northern Virginia, August 2011. Click on any thumbnail below and enjoy.
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Englewood, New Jersey
“Beechgate,” Englewood, New Jersey, 1918, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some mid-week prettiness. . . . The...
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Ronde kom
Round enclosure on Eeuwigelaan (street) in Bergen, The Netherlands, 1926, by A. J. Bonda, via Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr. I have been wondering about the purpose of this really nice rustic fence...
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Cheshire County, N.H.
“Ladies playing croquet,” probably Cheshire County, New Hampshire, ca. 1900, by Bion Whitehouse, via Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County Commons on flickr. Technically,...
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Östersund, Sweden
“The Bathhouse Park (Badhusparken) in sunshine,” Östersund, Sweden, ca. 1950, by Lundberg of Almquist & Cöster, via Swedish National Heritage Board Commons on flickr
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