I'm In a (Vintage) Pickle

Be they sweet, dill, or my favorite bread and butter, you gotta love pickles!

Can't say what overcame me, but I was inspired to gather these

vintage pictures of pickles and their cucumber relatives.

Ads, recipe books, poems, seed packets, sheet music,

and even the bags you use for those big pickles in barrels.

Enjoy this perky peck of pickle pics from the past!

Check out this link: ILovePickles.org, home of Pickle Packers International!

For you, Marisa. 😉

Appreciating Vintage Vegetable Seed Catalogs

With gardening season upon us, I'm showing off 

the beautiful covers of some vintage vegetable seed catalogs.

These are from the late 1800's through the turn of the century into the 1920's.

Backyard gardeners of every era have loved that smell of newly tilled soil 

and enjoyed of the hard-to-beat flavor of home-grown vegetables.

From Dorothy Frances Gurney's poem, "God's Garden":

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,--

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

Take a few minutes to appreciate this wonderful artwork, 

as well as the extensive use of decorative typography.

These images have been gathered from Pinterest.