SUMMERTIME: Part 5

Summertime is boys at the beach trying to impress the girls.

Tomorrow: camping

Eating WATERMELON Together

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!

Watermelon eating BEACH GALS

Okay, there's no evidence here of eating watermelon, but I have proof these woman did indeed eat watermelon on this beach. In this earlier post, BEACH PARTY with watermelon, we see them all chomping away on the juicy red fruit.

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This is from the infamous, in my mind, Big Bag of Negs. And dare I say that I found more photos of them eating watermelon. I've told you, it's a category. I must collect. Perhaps I will eventually corner the market. They'll all be mine. MINE I TELL YOU! ALL MINE!

Let's see, that's people eating watermelon, pigs eating watermelon, people on horses not real, looming shadows (far too commonly collected), did I mention watermelon? I say find a category and specialize. Specialization is where the money is.

Don't believe a word of what I'm saying. For cryin' out loud I know nothing! I mean, I have one photo of a pig eating watermelon and have decided to make it a category!

BEACH PARTY with watermelon

From the Big Bag of Negs I give you Beach Party!

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Some negs should never see the light of day, let alone a flatbed scanner. Others just make me smile as the image appears on the screen. I have to wonder how many prints of this one exist. I own the negative. It is in the aforementioned Big Bag of Negs which continues to have losers and winners. This one is a complete winner! And may I say the fourth in my collection of people eating watermelon. Yes, I have 4 photos of people eating watermelon, one involved a pig. If you've followed this blog you'll remember the handsome pig. Then I have two other shots of watermelon eaters that have not been shown. Who knows what sort of watermelon eaters lurk within the Big Bag of Negs! It's a category. I must collect them.

I'd say this one is from the early to mid-50s. I know my mother had a purse exactly like the one in the foreground on the beach. It was white woven fabric with a pull cinch top. I wish I still had it.

As to the shadow in the lower left corner...isn't it a little strange? A clown with a big nose and a funny hat? A one eared fellow with a tiny sailor hat?

And as to the standing fella...well maybe I just remember too many Annette and Frankie Beach Party movies, but I keep waiting for that guy to dance. Shake his butt and do the frug. If you have to ask what the frug is you're already too young. Keep moving', nothin' to see here.