Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

11/23/16

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


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An American Dream is the latest book in my series of vernacular photography books. The American dream of owning a home through vintage vernacular photographs. The focus is on the people who lived within the homes as well as the varied architecture from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

5/29/15

LADIES of the kitchen


This is not the first time I've featured my category: over the shoulder in the kitchen shots. In fact one of them was a Sepia Saturday post in December of 2013. So it is quite fortuitous that I have a new shot to add to my collection right as Sepia Saturday has a woman doing some pie making as the theme.

I think these two could use some nice captions. Any suggestions?


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I'm especially worried about the whip cream on this pie. If it looks this bad now what did it look like an hour later? I think the snoopy lady on the left shares my concern. I'm guessing the gentleman is worried about his stomach later that night, but won't get involved in the current possible dispute. He probably brought along a bottle of Pepto-Bismol since he's been to these events before. I'm guessing it's Thanksgiving since the calendar says "November 1956."


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This is my contribution to Sepia Saturday this week. I've been gone, even when I was here. Long story.

11/26/14

GRANNY in the flesh on Thanksgiving


It's just one meal on one day out of a whole year. Get along.

I think the young fella might be wondering how he ended up dining with Granny from the Tweety Bird and Sylvester cartoons.


Click on image to see it larger. From the book Tattered and Lost: Cakes, Picnics, and Watermelon


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11/21/12

CAUGHT skinnin' a live potato!


Well dang nabbit! I don't let folks take my picture so it's with great surprise that I find this shot of me showin' up! I guess they thought it would be funny to post a photo of the old woman peeling the skin off a live potato on Thanksgiving. Dang cell phone cameras!


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May you all have a potato skin free holiday!

11/25/10

DON'T RIDE THE BIRD!


Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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I bet my bird is bigger than your bird!

To read more about this little lady riding a bird click here to a post I did on January 10, 2009.

11/23/08

WE'VE BEEN DOWN this road before


I don't know the story behind this shot, but it has a feeling of the labor camps in the Great Depression, the
Grapes of Wrath. Poorly made structures that families were forced to live in. Children that grew up to be part of a country that took on the worst the world had to offer and succeeded. 

I'd like to be able to say that this shot is of its time and the history of this sort of poverty is in the past. We know that's not true. I think of these girls as a reminder of the hidden poverty in this country today.

Give thanks for what you have and share what you don't need. 

Happy Thanksgiving.