Something about cooking

 This week to show you a collection of old photos (and maybe a few that aren't so old) for Sepia Saturday, I'm looking for the food related photos. Mmm, if I can find any.

This little one is getting a drink, then will need changing to dryer clothes...while the wood stove is the heart of the kitchen for his mother. Don't you just know those two buckets have been carried from the source of their water! 

And before women had the gifts of freestanding wood fired stoves, this is the way they cooked. All these little "Dutch Ovens" are covered with live coals below and above, probably to bake some lovely bread. My son Tai and his wife use a Dutch Oven inside their gas oven in the kitchen to rise their sourdough bread... then formed into round loaves.

On a recent visit with them, I asked for blueberry pancakes, and Tai was most obliging.

Another breakfast was steel cut oatmeal with fresh and dried fruit liberally stirred in. I somehow didn't get photos of the wonderful evening meals...which they prepared together. 

I may have mentioned that I'm considering moving to southwest Colorado when an apartment comes available...the dry air is one inviting factor, while being near my son and his wife is also a big one. I'll have to be careful adjusting to the altitude however, which I faced during my short 9 day visit. My pulmonologist said a visit od 6 weeks would show how much I can acclimate to it, but I can't very well do that. So if it happens, we shall see.  Yesterday I was sick with coughing a lot, and even had a fever by late afternoon. Tylenol to the rescue, and today I feel pretty good.

A purchase of my favorite sweetener at the Tailgate Market last year attracted one of the creators of the very same thing.

A mother from Southeast Missouri in 1938. Fannie Lou Hammer's America. Another woman who had the galvanized bucket for water, as well as a wood fired stove.

From internet, "Cooking in 1900."  Some stoves were coal fired as well as wood. This ornate one doesn't have any clear designation, but there appears to be a hot water tank next to it. With all the pipes it's possible she had running water also. (But there's a familiar bucket in the pantry also!)

The crew which helped produce the TV cooking shows for Julia Child. Only thing missing? A bucket!

And to match the theme for Sepia Saturday more exactly, here we see fresh veggies at the Tailgate Market in Black Mountain.

Our free veggies (fruit and bread) from Bounty and Soul, which is brought to different locations on different days in the valley. Those blueberries are organic locally grown, and were frozen immediately...as well as the bread. I'm so fortunate to live where this is available for anyone who wishes to wait in line. At one pick-up place they just give out a box of edibles, but that's wasteful as many things aren't what the person wants, or will eat.

It's always fun to share with other photographers on Sepia Saturday...some of which will be on the suggested meme, and others will be enjoyable as they've gone in another direction!!

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Today's quote:

Sometimes during our spiritual growth, we can feel as if we are going backward — rest assured you are not.

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An old photo from my family files:

My sister Mary Miller fixing something delicious in the 80s.

Honoring those who've gone before

Today is Mother's Day here in the US

Poppy, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927

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Sharing a short video which I saw on another blog yesterday. Thanks Love is a Place!

Story by Gabriel (Brian) Andreas, with art by Matthew Andreas

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I think I'd like to remember some women who influenced me through the years, who are no longer with us.

Maternal great grandmother, after whom I was named (Barbara Booth.) She raised her 4 daughters, and then helped raise my mother when my mom's father and then step-father died before she was 10.

Let's not forget the religious persecutions of women in my family. I recorded more details on my other blog, "Three Family Trees" about the 1692 witch trial of Mary Lovett Tyler, (1651-1732).  She was my 7 times great Aunt, married to Hopestill Tyler (1646-1734). It's an interesting and convoluted story, but basically she and her husband had to move out of town to live in New London CT, instead of Andover, MA.

I use this photo to designate an individual who was accused as a witch or was an accuser. Some individuals who were accused were eventually found not guilty, some were cleared, but some were hung. It's quite possible one of the judges who decreed the women to hang had also been an ancestor!

Center is my grandmother on paternal side, known to her many granddaughters as "Gummy." She lived a lot of her life in Houston TX, died in 1964. The little girl to the left in the photo is my sister, who died in 2017, and myself to right and hoping not to die for a while yet! Gummy was very much a matriarch of the Rogers family for her 78 years.

My family of origin...sister Mary Rogers Miller (1946-2017) myself and my mother, Mataley Rogers (1917-2003), taken by my father probably in 1959.

Yet another woman artist who influenced my life was Mary Cassett. 

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And then for my pottery muse, Mary Caroline Richards - (Blog post in 2011)

Mary Caroline Richards (July 13, 1916, Weiser, Idaho – September 10, 1999, Kimberton, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, potter, and writer best known for her book Centering: in Pottery, Poetry and the Person.

 Educated at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and at the University of California at Berkeley, she taught English at the Central Washington College of Education and the University of Chicago, but in 1945 became a faculty member of the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina where she continued to teach until the end of the summer session in 1951.

 It was her teaching experience and growth as an artist while at Black Mountain College that prepared the foundation for most of her work in life, both as an educator and creator. Later in life, she discovered the work of Rudolf Steiner and lived the last part of her life at a Camphill Village in Kimberton, PA. In 1985, while living at the Kimberton Camphill Village she began teaching workshops with Matthew Fox at the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA during the winter months. Mary Caroline Richards died in 1999 in Kimberton, PA

A wonderful film about her life.

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Today's quote: 

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Amazon Goddess figure.