This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph shows two Edwardian ladies in hats and long skirts, feeding logs onto a small bonfire. Well, I have done hat and long skirts, and with no other relevant vintage images, I have chosen to focus on wood - for Buildings & Bridges, Artistic Inspiration and Simply for Fun, with memories of holidays, home and family. Do read on!
WOOD IN BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES
A timber yard in Ruhpolding, Bavaria - looking across the meadows to the church.
A traditional Austrian chalet in Kaprun, with the wooden balcony, shutters and fencing.
A typical Cape Cod cottage, with a picket fence
on the Island of Nantucket, in New England.
on the Island of Nantucket, in New England.
Christchurch, Cambridge
which I attended whilst working in the USA, 1965-66. Now
designated a National Historic
Site, Christchurch was founded in 1759 and built in the traditional
New England clapboard style. There is a beautiful and elegant
Georgian simplicity to its interior. During the Amerasian Revolution,
the church was attacked by dissenting colonials for its Tory leanings,
but George and Martha Washington attended a service here.
A
reconstruction of the old wooden North Bridge at Concord, Massachusetts, where
in 1775 local Minutemen fired the first shot in the American War of
Independence and forced the British to retreat back to Boston.
A traditional covered wooden bridge in New Hampshire, New England
A wooden jetty and boat house on the island of Martha's Vineyard, New England
INSPIRED BY WOOD
In St. Gilgen Austria, a carved wooden balcony with a lovely image of a little dog.
A carved figure outside a shop in in Austria.
"Schnitz Verkstatt" means "woodcarving workshop"
"Schnitz Verkstatt" means "woodcarving workshop"
Two of eleven wicker woodland creatures, created around a metal skeleton, by a local artist, and on display this summer in Priorwood Gardens, a National Trust property in Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
Owls carved on a bench at Centre Parcs, Whinfell Forest, Cumbria.
AND FINALLY - YOU CAN HAVE FUN WITH WOOD
Our pet cocker spaniel enjoyed on a walk, picking up branches, the longer the better, to bring home.
Not my idea of fun - but here is our granddaughter on the high tree trek walk at Centre Parks in Whinfell Forest in the Lake District.
Helping Daddy unload logs for the fire.
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P.S. I continue to have awful trouble using this new Blogger and was dismayed today that I could not revert to the Legacy version. It took me ages writing this quite straightforward post. I got there in the end!
(I'm glad I don't work with "Blogger" from all the complaints I've been seeing & hearing!) Some great inventive posts here. I've been across that bridge between Lexington and Concord in 1992 when I was chaperoning a group of high schoolers on a history trip. In fact the entire group of 36 teens posed in the middle of that bridge for a picture so the wood structure underneath must have been good and stout! Oh, and by the way, I think that cute wood sculpture of a dog is actually a cat? :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, for your comment. Yes, I had written down cat initially for that carving, and then changed my mind to dog!
ReplyDeleteIt really is hard to tell. I did wonder about the long legs being more like a dog's than a cat's? The long skinny tail seemed more like a cat's, but some dogs have skinny tails? I think it's a tossup but a cute one for sure. :)
ReplyDeleteThere's something special about wood as a material.
ReplyDeleteThe swan boats made me add Slovenia to by list of places to see.
Fascinating to see where you have gone with this week's prompt. These are gorgeous photos of vacations past -- and the creative use of wood for boats, bridges and beauty. Well done!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun post, with photos from all over. So glad you could share your visits to all those places!! Wood is a wonderful material that we can use in many ways.
ReplyDeleteOn my dresser is a small alpine chalet, a Swiss music box, which I've marveled for its rustic charm ever since I was a small child. It's the organic quality of wood that I love and the way it can be easily transformed into anything imaginable, from buildings to carvings.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to glide down the river in one of those swan boats!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a different type of post for you! It is rather thought-provoking in its simplicity. I enjoyed this tribute to wood in all its various forms and uses.
ReplyDelete(While I don't love the new Blogger, I am not having problems with it. As before, I copy and paste my text from a Word document and then insert photos and do any formatting in Blogger.)
Thank you all for your kind comments - this was a fun post to pull together.
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