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. 😉

Happy Halloween Magic!

A cute and clever poem by John Martin,

surrounded with vintage illustrations

make for special Happy Halloween wishes

from My Paisley World!

A St. Patrick’s Day Gallery

Warm St. Patrick's Day wishes

from a gal who hasn't a drop of Irish blood in her veins.

But every year on March 17th, everybody's Irish, right?

Enjoy this gallery and

have a Happy St. Paddy's Day!

The Art of … Seashells

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Sea Shell

-by Amy Lowell

Sea shell, sea shell,

Sing me a song, O please!

A song of ships, and sailor men,

And parrots, and tropical trees,

Of islands lost in the Spanish Main

Which no man ever may find again,

Of fishes and corals under the waves,

And seahorses stabled in great green caves.

Sea shell, sea shell,

Sing of the things you know so well.

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DeepColouredWater

Barbara Groenteman

Anna Novikova

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Annie Hobbs

Marjolein Bastin

Lilly Pulitzer