Lost Gallery: back yard

For this Sepia Saturday Suggestion there is a perfectly marvelous photograph of a row of fenced back yards or back gardens stretching into the distance.

The back yard is that private bit of real estate where the resident can keep the barbeque grill and the clothes line. It's where cook-outs and the sun-tan sessions take place. It's where mom has her vegetable garden and dad has a little utility shed he calls his shop.

Lots of the snapshots collected in LOST GALLERY are taken outside in the yard. In the young years of the consumer camera, lots of light was needed to get a good clear photograph. So, often it was "That's a nice hat. Let's go outside and take your picture."

For many occasions it was the front steps that got the honor of hosting the pose, or the side of the house where the crepe myrtle provided a nice background. But quite often, it was the back yard that was the venue for the snapshot event. Why? Sure, sometimes just to take advantage of better light at certain times of day.

But, perhaps the reason for the Kodak Moment was some activity that was a little more private, and one didn't necessarily want to entertain the neighbors on both sides of the street. Or could be it was because the event was actually taking place in the back yard...or back garden, the patio, the veranda, the lanai, the courtyard, the terrace, the deck ... It's behind the house...

So today for Sepia Saturday, lets look at some photographs and see if we can determine what makes them back yard photographs.

The Swing Set for the kiddies was usually in the back yard where mom could corral the kids and keep an eye on them.

There's also a tell-tale watering can in this shot. Mom's flower garden must be near by.

Those plank fences kept the neighbor's dog at home. Later those back yard fences would be taller, with no spaces between the planks or slats and earn the title "Privacy Fence."

Let's see, there's the clothes line, the slanted cellar door, the back porch and the dog. Yes, I would say this is the back yard.

Now what could be finer than a cold bath in the privacy of your own back yard?

Let's see; clothes line, shed, dog, stepladder, smooch. Yep, it's the back yard.

I just don't know why the above photograph is so popular.

It's the family dog's domain.

Yep. Back yard.

Picnic table, plank fence, gas meter, garden hose; it's the back yard.

So slip out the back way to the
Sepia Saturday home page to find a variety of really fine back yards.

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