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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Me and My Cow Parsley Seeds :-)

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The last post prompted my husband Jack to insist I share this photo of me :-) Several years ago I first noticed this exuberant, large ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Old Photo: Tall Lady and Her Tall Bean Plants

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How many photographs have been taken of people in gardens standing next to their successful plants?  I find them  enjoyable, getting a...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Art of the Bean - circa 1878 Japanese Ink Drawing

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Behold the bean.   This is what art helps people to do...to be able to see what is in front of them every day in all its wonder.   This im...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

1880 - Grandmother's Baked Beans on Ponketasset Hill, Concord, Massachusetts

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Baked Beans George Houghton B AKED beans! The very name is dear to New Englanders! Baked beans! Those two words of five  letters each...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Civil War Song in Praise of the Bean (video)

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It is one thing to like a dish, but totally another to write a song in its praise!!!  This is a great Civil War period song performed by t...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

1937 Maryland Beans, Sun Bonnets

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It is report card time with the school full of families, and school is ramping up into the pre-holiday tizzy that propels us through the n...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Dorothea Lange and Beans

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In May 1937, Dorothea Lange photographed cultivating beans  with  a four-row cultivator near Santa Ana, California.  Look down ...