Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving



Click here for a celebration of family and, perhaps, give thanks.

Photograph of a kitchen table in a shepherd's cottage "... an early 19th-century cottage, one room thick, built of rough flints. Oil-lamps are still used here and cooking is done either on the open fire or on an oil-stove. The fireplace is built up with bricks and has a wrought-iron front of two bars. The fire-bar which once when across the chimney and from which pots and kettles might hang, has disappeared" from English Cottages and Farmhouses, text by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith, Thames and Hudson, London 1954.

7 comments:

  1. Happy Thanksgiving to all the Blue's.

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  2. Oh, yes - I do like this! Have been acquiring such iron implements meself of late. Lots to be thankful for....Happy day. Enjoy your NY trip!

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  3. Hello Blue:
    We still have the original iron bars for hanging pots in two of our fireplaces at Darlington House. I have been toying with the idea of trying to cook in them, using the original techniques, and suspect I shall one day soon. Thank you for the link in the post -- inspiring and touching, and gives me even more to be thankful for today. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the Celt. Reggie

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  4. Thank you for the link to The Devotion Project. I have sent it to my beloved who is away in Japan for a few days. It's terrific!

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  5. Recalls to me the special comforts of intimate meetings in the well-discovered studios of our leafier cities, and the warmth exchanged there. A beautiful posting.

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  6. Hope you had a wonderful day! Thanks for the evocative photo.

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