Though you might be inclined to keep a watermelon for yourself, I find it much more fun to share. It's nice to see friends and family reduced to dealing with the juice running down their chin and forearms, forced to spit seeds in all directions. Alas, this Labor Day I will not be eating watermelon. I will be eating the peach pie I just baked using the last of the peaches off my tree. It smells like heaven and I know I'll be checking on it constantly as it cools just so I can inhale and dream of the taste to come.
I give you another in my "people eating watermelon" collection from the big bag of negs. Don't worry, it's a small collection. These same ladies appeared in the July 7th post eating, of course, watermelon. A vernacular photography Labor Day watermelon eating event!
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Good gracious - imagine having a collection of images of people eating watermelons. I don't think I even saw a watermelon until I was almost middle aged.
ReplyDeletePeople eating watermelons has turned out to be slightly more common than I would have imagined. Now PIGS eating watermelons, alas I only have one.
ReplyDeleteAlan, for your viewing pleasure...a pig eating watermelon.
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It is such classic photo. Watermelon eating on a hot beach. How wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI have to tell you, I stumbled onto this blog from a google search for 'watermelon eaters' (I have such eaters on my blog, and I was curious what might turn up). This is a great photo.
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely loving your images here, and the little stories you come up with.
Thanks for sharing all these!
Welcome aboard. There's a lot of stuff to look at, most especially the pig eating watermelon. He's a handsome pig with his family and a bunch of chickens.
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I thought of you this past weekend when I saw a photo of three, three!, kids eating watermelon in about 1930. Unfortunately, the photo was A very poor and hard to make out and B $6!!! I did not buy it in your honor, sorry. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnother great word ver: retra, the feminine of retro.
Perhaps it's me, but I find that many of these vernacular photos of people eating watermelons have something consciously suggestive about them: maybe it's the slurpiness or messiness of it all - or perhaps the fact that people lean forward or part their knees to avoid getting juice on their clothes.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm...this isn't something that ever crossed my mind, but I can see how one could go in that direction.
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