Saturday, April 19, 2014

Sepia Saturday - The Garden


This week the Sepia Saturday suggestion is a photograph of a couple people dressed in their best Sunday-go-to-Meetin' clothes while posing as gardeners.

The woman carefully operates a watering can while the man holds the rake for her. (He's so helpful.)

Now, posing for a picture whilst holding a gardening tool is not unknown but...


Just a wheel barrow in the garden

...it is often not a serious exercise.


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Carman knew
Two sailors

Girl rakes leaves
Gardening

However, LOST GALLERY finds serious gardening is often done without tools. There seems to be an abundance of snapshots of people posing IN the garden without doing much of anything, especially work. Here are a few blossoms...

The pause that refreshes

Two children
Two children

Baby in the garden
Child in the garden
Child in a garden

girl in garden
Holli smelling flowers no number
posing in the garden

Personal Pinup
Posing in the Garden

I never promised you a rose garden
Not much gardening going on here...
Girl in the garden
Five people standing in flowers
A man with a hat and a woman in the garden

Mounted photo
Woman in Garden

Girl in a field
Polka Dots and Cannas
Girl in a knit sun suit

Girl in a dress

Here is a cropped and wrinkled photograph of a girl standing in a garden.

But there is something else. Is this a face you have seen before? Here is an interesting comparison. What do you think?




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Joanie named all of her tomato plants "Gus" in honor of her husband who disappeared last fall without a trace.

Now shovel off to the Sepia Saturday home page and see who else is goofing off in the garden.


The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group, An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

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Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

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THE KIDS Lesson one. It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

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The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
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"What are they doing?"

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19 comments:

  1. Susanna RosalieApril 19, 2014 at 7:37 AM

    I had an entertaining stroll in the garden... And I am glad to have met Mr. Gnome!

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    1. anyjazzApril 19, 2014 at 7:59 AM

      Thanks Susanna Rosalie. What's a garden without a Gnome? I wonder if the person taking that picture intended to include the little statue.

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  2. AnonymousApril 19, 2014 at 8:35 AM

    Great collection photos of people of all ages posing in gardens, as well as someone actually working in one

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    1. anyjazzApril 19, 2014 at 1:38 PM

      Thanks genepenn. There were lots to choose from.

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  3. La NightingailApril 19, 2014 at 12:54 PM

    As always, a most enjoyable post - this tour through myriad gardens with such a variety. Chuckled at the first few - humor has a place almost anywhere, any time! As for the comparison pix - those smiles are about as identical as you can get. The younger could be from a later generation. Who knows?

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    1. anyjazzApril 19, 2014 at 1:39 PM

      Thanks La Nightingail. Humor certainly does belong almost anywhere. Do you think that could be an ancestor of Charlize?

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    2. La NightingailApril 19, 2014 at 4:55 PM

      They do look an awful lot alike. I would think she could at least believably pretend it was a relative.

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  4. PostcardyApril 19, 2014 at 4:39 PM

    My favorites are the photos of people with garden tools.

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    1. anyjazzApril 19, 2014 at 6:15 PM

      Thanks Postcardy. I found relatively few actually working in a garden. Actually there were quite a few of people just standing with trees and flowers.

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  5. Brett PayneApril 19, 2014 at 5:23 PM

    Only one "kanoodling in the garden" photo, you're slacking anyjazz.

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    1. anyjazzApril 19, 2014 at 6:16 PM

      Thanks Brett Payne. Yes, I have only one other like that that I can think of. Maybe next time for it.

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  6. Alex DawApril 21, 2014 at 3:25 AM

    I liked the two babies next to the gnome best. Hilarious. You always have so many great photos.

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    1. anyjazzApril 21, 2014 at 6:17 AM

      Thanks Alex Daw. The gnome photograph is hard to resist. The photograph next to it was apparently from the same camera but maybe a year later.

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  7. 21 WitsApril 22, 2014 at 9:08 AM

    Pull up your pants young man, the fad hasn't arrived yet for you! Hehehehehe! Great photos all throughout, and once again most of them can tell a story without words!

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    1. anyjazzApril 22, 2014 at 10:50 AM

      Thanks Karen. You're right! Not a fashion back at that time but it's just as silly then as it is now. There's always a story.

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  8. Little NellApril 23, 2014 at 8:34 AM

    I always enjoys strolling through your galleries and there’s at least one each week to make me smile, what more could I want? I love the babies with the gnome.

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    1. anyjazzApril 23, 2014 at 3:44 PM

      Thanks Little Nell. Glad you enjoy the tour. The garden gnome portrait is probably my favorite too.

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  9. Tattered and LostApril 25, 2014 at 12:13 AM

    A time traveling Charlene! I love it.

    And who would be so mean as to put a bonnet like that on a baby on a blanket. Poor kids would go right over should a strong wind blow through. Actually, I'd love to see that. Boom goes the baby. Or perhaps they'd take flight.

    A grand collection. I have nothing to compare to these humorous ones.

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    1. anyjazzApril 25, 2014 at 12:27 PM

      Thanks Tattered and Lost. I was a little surprised about the Theron look alike. The old photograph is certainly from at least 60 years ago. Then I found a modern photograph of the star in exactly the same pose, smile and all. Morphing the two was a fun project.

      I see a series now! The Flying Babies! Plots pending. If the Flying Nun worked, why not babies?

      Thanks for the visit.

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