This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph features market scene with a colorful display of fruit & veg. I had to ransack my collection to find some images, so my theme here is "Colourful Shopping" - not just food.
What could be more colourful than this market scene - even the bright sky contributed! Taken in Boston August 1965 as I was about to start work o.n an exchange scheme at Radcliffe College Library in nearby Cambridge, Mass.
New England this time on my first return visit back in the 1990s. I just had to stop and take this photograph of such a cheerful colourful display of pumpkins.
A shop display
Onto Europe
Crowded displays in Munich Christmas Market c. 1995
Onto Austria
I love the traditional Austrian costumes, worn for weddings, Sundays and a familiar uniform for staff in hotels and restaurants.
Attracting the Shoppers In.......
A Shop in Bad Ischl, Austria advertising its handmade biscuits - Lebkuchen,
Picturesque shop signs - for a hatter, optician and travel bureau.
And ending where I began in the USA wh this colorful sign on the island Martha's Vineyard, New England.
Scrimshaw is the craft of decorating or carving whale bone or ivory, done by sailors as a recreational activity.
Edgartown on the island of Martha's Vineyard off Cape Cod
was founded as a colony by Thomas Mayhew in 1642. The settlement was
later named after King James II's young son Edgar who died at the age
of three in 1671. By
the 19th century Edgartown was one of the main whaling ports on the
American Atlantic coast, with whaling a key factor in its prosperity.
A Fascinating Fact
- Maintaining the link with whales, Edgartown was used as the main
location for shooting the town of Amity in Steven Spielberg's 1975
blockbuster "Jaws".
Sepia Saturday give bloggers an opportunity
to share their family history.
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Wonderful colorful pictures of various types of markets in a variety of places. My eye caught on the photo of all those pumpkins at Lambert's Fruit Co. in New England for two reasons. Firstly, it reminded me of several pictures I took of pumpkins artfully displayed in a local nursery years ago. I need to go back & take a peek at them. I haven't thought about them in a long time. The other thing Lambert's layout made me think of is if the painter, Charles Wysocki, were still living, he would probably have included Lambert's Fruit Co. with that pumpkin layout in a painting. It was exactly his style. :)
ReplyDeleteSue, these are such great market photos - and then some! New England is great at having beautiful produce, but then you included some European spots...as well as holidays and costumes, then signs. Whew, my head is slightly spinning. But I enjoyed this trip through your photo gallery!
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