Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Spring Weekend#2

This is quite a colorful window on a side street in Boothbay Harbor. The more I stared at it from the street, the more it took me back to the room just off the kitchen on Stevens Avenue. Call it a play room, a junk room, a shed. I think we each had our own name. Pick the season, and it was loaded with needed stuff: bushel boxes of MacIntosh apples, cardboard boxes stuffed full with old clothes for dress-up disguises , tools from the garage, unused furniture, games leftover from winter nights on the dining room table, and many, many discarded pots and pans. I'm sure Mom called it junk, but for us the endless possibilities of play and fun times meant some sort of heaven. My sister's play kitchen with a wonderful mix-match of toy teacups, saucers, colorful dishes, small play pots and pans, my grandfather mini kitchen cabinet and her toy stove was a treasure trove to the neighborhood girls. It was so entertaining 'rediscovering the junk' that took us to another world for a few hours.

20 comments:

  1. It is a pretty photo. The pitchers look like fiesta ware. They still make that stuff in West Virginia.

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  2. Your words reminds me also my childhood, I used to play kitchen as well, wonderful memories!Thanks so much!
    Léia

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  3. Thank you for taking us back with this memory of yours. Pure joy. And the photo's lovely, too.

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  4. I don't know which I enjoy more, the photo or the story! Jack and I both recall Fiesta ware where many are now in antique shops...or maybe junk shops since apparently they're made in West Virginia still. Colourful photo.

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  5. I love all the colors! What a wonderful piece of brightness. :)

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  6. Sounds like you had a delightful childhood. How wonderful that this window display evoked those memories!

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  7. The details of your recollections are divine. Photo also divine.

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  8. Great window display. And, another nice childhood memory too.

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  9. Hi, I want to use one of your photoes (the one about the second hand store), with link to this site of course, but I see no contact info and a vicious warning about not using any content.

    My address is kadebg [at] abv [dot] bg . If you strictly DO NOT allow any use, just drop me a line. Thanks.

    -Rya

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  10. My mother-in-law loves fiesta ware and these are beautiful with all the bright colors. I love those pitchers!

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  11. Cheerful, fun dishes! They would be great for spring and summer!

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  12. This is a beautiful display of Fiestaware! It reminds me of my grandmother's pantry. We loved to look around in the pantry at all the serving pieces she had stored there along with bags of clothespins and stacks of neatly folded tablecloths. There was a fresh sent in that room that I've never been able to duplicate.

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  13. Lovely memories and great shot of the Fiestaware. I have quite a few pieces and it always cheers me every time I look at it!

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  14. How many times did I slice that piece of fat selling it to an imaginary customer?!

    Love the bright colours!

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  15. Great photo! I want to buy some in each color to mix and match.

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  16. You infuse nostalgia with such warmth and beauty. This reminds me of all the great old stuff (junk?) in the now-closed two-room Lutheran parochial school in Hermansberg, Kansas, that my wife attended.

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  17. Birdman -- Oh, that is the kind of playroom I would have liked when I was young -- or maybe even now? -- barbara

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  18. Very nice, both the colorful image and the nice story!:)

    Gunn / Stavanger / Norway

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