Sepia photos with wood

Unknown 1911 location. I remember my parents having one of those sling chairs like the man is lounging in....a canvas strip adhered at a top and bottom bar, with wood struts which collapsed so it could easily be carried around.

Madison County NC shows another wood frame hanging from the ceiling with fabric attached, this time to be quilted with the cotton batting which is shown around  the edges. 1936

More use of wood and ropes on a derelict dock, with industrial gravel piled in the distance waiting to be shipped somewhere. Tampa Bay Florida in the 2000s.

Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store in Person County, North Carolina, circa 1939.

 

Women having tea, New Zealand, 1890.

Sharing with  Sepia Saturday.

Nature in a pot

 No nothing about pot, not even really about pottery either!

Just what is growing in my pots. Here all the other buds but one have fallen off, and this is what the cactus is putting out.

I don't know if Ms Spider came inside with her web or not. 

Tiny but mighty succulents.

I gave away the other big square planter, but plan to take this with me when I move...as well as these happy Kalanchoes.

My Spirit House to invite good vibes to visit!

These succulents are getting more sun. I should take the others outside to the porch railing too.

Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

Very strange, this Kalanchoe is not doing well, and then I just stuck a flower from the other one into the pot, and it's still blooming after 2 weeks. I think this is one of the pots which got the fungus in it a couple of years ago.

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Being present lets us experience each moment in our lives in a way that cannot be fully lived through memory or fantasy.

Just a month left

 

I wonder why I'm not drawn to go to the beach one more time this summer before I move out west. I could certainly do so. I've sat in the sand and enjoyed the interaction with salty waves many times, enjoying the connection with all the waters that flow around our earth.

But no, I can let the rest of humanity have their sunburns, sandy toes, and damp bathing suits. I am happy enough with drinking lots of water. That's become my connection with all the earth's many-times-recycled waters. You can remind me I said this today if I ever complain about the dryness of Colorado!

Making blueberry pancakes the other day...with frozen blueberries. I'd drop a few onto each pancake after the batter was poured in the pan. So I got lovely blueberry stains on my fingernails!

I do prefer the smaller ones to the great big grandmother size pancakes.

A view of the cooking layout for my new apartment in Durango. It's not much different than the one I now have, though a bit older and smaller. Which actually is close to describing myself, except I'm not much smaller!

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Reminder: Drop over to see Art in Bloom - Alchemy of Clay blog which has some photos each day for this year's display of art with floral arrangements at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts 

Oldest ceramic, not just a goddess

 The Venus of Dolní Věstonice is a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to 29,000–25,000 BCE. It was found in 1925 at the Paleolithic site Dolní Věstonice in the Moravian basin south of Brno / Czech 

It is considered the oldest known ceramic article in the world, crafted from fired clay mixed with bone ash.

@Moravian Museum in Brno.

One may also have a thought or two whether the artist who modeled and carved this figure in clay, then burned it in the firepit was a man or woman.

Thanks for hosting Tuesday's Treasures, Tom the Backroads Traveller!

I've posted lots of other ancient goddesses. Here are a few of them.

Happy 2026

Peace on Earth

Maybe the Angry Women -4

Celebrations of Light

Maybe the Angry Women - 2

Well, there are a lot more, but these came up first in my search!

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Some more ancient wonders:

Built before the pyramids, Newgrange is aligned with the winter solar solstice. This civilization included minds which remembered a year to year event, engineers and artists who could build forms to show how the sun would shine down a passageway at that yearly event, and a group of people who could mound up all that earth and move those stones without metal tools or wheels. Whenever a civilization can build monuments, it means there is enough sustenance and wealth that people don't all have to be focused on survival issues, raising food and families and protecting themselves against the elements and possible enemies. I'm always in  awe of these ancient skilled peoples.

Dawn shines down the passageway at Newgrange on Winter Solstice

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Art in Bloom - Alchemy of Clay blog has some photos each day for this year's display of art with floral arrangements at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts