No Fixed Plans

  This week Sepia Saturday bloggers' inspiration is the group portrait above. Here's what I found from the Library of Congress. Group portrait, Cavalry . , None. [Between 1916 and 1917] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016826117/. Flandreau Indian School, South Dakota, choir . South Dakota Flandreau, None. [Between 1909 and 1932] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/90711013/. Stieglitz, C. M, photographer.  Baroness Marie von Trapp front and five of her ten singing children back row, left to right Agatha, Hedwig and Johanna; center, left to right Marie and Martina / / World Telegram photo, C.M. Stieglitz . , 1940. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013645754/. Taylor, David Alan.  Formal portrait of workers and managers at Newberger's Towel Factory, Paterson . United States New Jersey Totowa, 1994. -09. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip000255/. You can see more inspired Sepia Saturday photos here .

What a stylish door! I saw it in Thessaloniki this summer. It's pure delight. If you'd like to see more doors, mosey on over to Dan's blog.  

  I recently discovered this YouTube channel that dives into the etymology of words, the history of their pronunciation and all sorts of nerdy gems of information on the English language. Take a look.

  Greece Here's my contribution to this week's Monday Murals. 

  Lezhe, Albania This week my mural is on a preschool in Albania. How cheerful. If you want to see more murals from around the world, go to Monday Murals on Colourful Wor ld.

 

  Now that I'm back home, I'm delighted to create a Sepia Saturday post. This week I searched the Library of Congress for some photos of girls on chairs. Little Girl in Curved Chair . France, 1918. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017675129/. Du Bois, W. E. B. , Collector.  African American girl, full-length portrait, seated in chair, head resting on right hand, facing front . Georgia, 1899. [or 1900] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/99472097/. Two Unidentified Girls, Full-Length Portraits, Seated on Chairs Next to Table With Tablecloth . , None. [Between 1850 and 1860] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004664364/. To see more Sepia Saturday photos, click here .

Abstract in Evanston Beside the stairs up to the Main Street train station, you'll see this mural. I admit I don't really get it. Do you have any hunches?  

  This week's Sepia Saturday prompt inspired me to search for mannequins and store displays. Here's what I found. Rizzuto, A., photographer. (1953)  42nd St. manikins i.e. mannequins relax after a hard day's work . United States New York New York State, 1953. [12/53] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020636072/. Vachon, J., photographer. (1940)  Department store models, Chicago, Illinois . United States Illinois Chicago, 1940. July. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017720281/. Raymond Loewy Associates, C., Gottscho-Schleisner, I., photographer. (1957)  Best's department store, business in Abington, Pennsylvania. Display, to lingerie . Pennsylvania United States Abington, 1957. Mar. 8. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018729009/. Ehrhart, S. D. (1909)  The national chaperone / Ehrhart . , 1909. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & S...

 

  How time flies. It's already time for the Uptown neighborhood's Art Week. This year rather than painting the concrete at the bottom of the train pillars, artists had a 4' by 4' canvas attached at the top to another canvas to paint however they liked. Here's a few of the pieces I saw. Well, time didn't fly that fast, this feature (below) reports that last year the Uptown Art Week was in August. To see more murals from all over the world, click here . 

  This week Queen Elizabeth II , who celebrated her Platinum Jubilee , a historic first for the monarchy, is the inspiration for Sepia Saturday. I have seen some of the events and have recorded more.  I am sharing some of the winner's of the children's art contest for young artists who created portraits of their queen in 2011. To see more inspired posts, click here . 

 

In Evanston on Main Street This week I'm sharing a fading composite of European sites. If you'd like to see more murals, click here .  

This week sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share photos based on the cutie above who's on the phone. Rochester Photo Press, C. C. (ca. 1909)  Young Woman Talking Into a Telephone . , ca. 1909. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647226/. I found some quotations worth sharing too: We shall one day navigate the air as the sea—rain will be made to pour on the desert, and it will be cultivated and blossom as the rose—bread shall yet be made of stones in the street—the man of a hundred years shall yet be in his prime—men will yet take a little instrument from their waistcoat pocket and communicate with a friend a hundred miles away without wires, as if they spoke face to face. ~James Gillingham (1838–1924),  The Seat of the Soul Discovered or the World's Great Problem Solved, with Objections to the Same Answered , second edition, 1870. O misery, misery, mumble and moan! Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's ...

  Hello.  Sit down. Let's have some coffee or tea if you'd like and begin Weekend Coffee Share, a time to sit down and "chat" about the week. If we where having coffee, I'd remark on how chilly it's been this May. I think we had one week that I'd call warm. I'd tell you I had a good week subbing. Just one half day in 5th grade with an unruly class but the co-teacher was charged with handling them. The rest of the week I was with 1st and 2nd graders who were so adorable and really wanted to learn. I'm sold on these lower grade students.  On Tuesday since I just worked half the day I went with my mother to see the new Downton Abbey film. If you're already a fan, I'd say go. It'll be fun to see characters you loved. If you never saw the series, check that out first, it's meatier than the film.  Thursday one of my nephews graduated from high school and I watched that with my parents on YouTube.  I'm getting more information about ...

  If you're a Downton Abbey fan, you'll probably enjoy this chance to catch up with the Crawley's, but if you're new to the series and character's there isn't much for you here.  The film opens with the one-time chauffeur turned son-in-law marrying again after years of mourning his first wife's death. Everyone's throwing rice and smiling.  Soon dowager Crawley announces that she's inherited a villa in France. What? It turns out that a Frenchmen with whom she spent a week 60 or so years ago. She's rather sickly with a  nondescript illness so she won't go to France but she does want her son, his wife and various relatives and servants to look into the villa and to find out how this man's wife and son feel about this inheritance. Mary, the eldest daughter, who now runs the estate, will remain at Downton. She's accepted a film director's request to use the house for his next film. The large fee can pay off the cost of a roof repair an...

  For this week's (belated) Thursday Doors, I'm sharing a photo of someone in an Evanston neighborhood, who just doesn't want to be bothered.

  .In Evanston, Illinois at a Youth Center. I went mural hunting today for Monday Murals and here's one I found.

  These guys look like they're off on a trip. I'm inspired to find more travel related images.  Mayer, Henry, Artist.  Travel impressions / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer . , 1914. New York: Published by Puck Publishing Corporation, 295-309 Lafayette Street. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649835/. Unspecified illustrator. (1950). Vintage Tichnor Comic/Flat Tire. Retrieved from  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/798122365185612490/. Bamforth & Co. (publisher, English, act. 1870-1990). ca. 1907-1914 (publication date). "Are you first class, sir?" "Now, do I look it!" Bamforth (Copyright); verso: Holmfirth. Bamforth & Co., Ltd. Publishers (England) and New York, Series No. 2193. https://library.artstor.org/asset/SS35428_35428_22849126. Poole, F.J. C. (n.d.) Lucky Dogs, Calisphere, Retrieved on May 21 2022, from https://calisphere.org/item/ff4474ec02fe09d97a288afdd7888e93/. To see more historic images, click here .