Happy Image 10: Sunday Drive

Jerome B. Rice's Seed Company has the most fantastic trade cards.  Much better than any others. But other than that I had not found much.  Then this appeared at auction (not ebay for once...)!

I find it charming, and, of course, happy...saved from being vapidly sweet by the touring car, the city folks and the aggressively colored beautiful vegies around the basket.  

Happy Image 9: Cloud Nine Harvest

You absolutely knew how your garden would make you feel

when looking at this Burpee catalog cover! 

Happy Image 8: Green Queen

This is a happy cabbage, don't you think?

Some days it is harder to find Happy than others...

Happy Image 7: Brownies

Brownies...those odd little dudes so popular at the turn of the century.  Happily doing all the work humans would rather not do...and doing it in enthusiastic, if klutzy, groups.
A barrage of brownies?

I have not found out who the artist A.M.H. is yet.

Happy Image 6: Nasturtium Sweetie Pie

These covers from Miss C. H. Lippincott.  I have to admit they are straying into "sweet" rather than "happy".  On the other hand, I wouldn't mind seeing some of these kids at school!  

My kids are sweet there, too, but in the last week of school they aren't as easy to deal with as these three  images :-) (or as quiet). 

This first one is a sweetie pie.  Nice dolly face.

The eyes of these following children are weird!

Happy Image 5: Again With The Moonflowers!

Moonflowers seem to have been the vine of the turn of the century.  Many catalogs have them featured. (See previous post. (1) (2))  This is a cover, however!  Large version below.

Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia -1891

Happy Image 4: Lushness

Who can look at this and not happily smell the strawberries 

or long to roll the wineberry on the tongue?! 

Visit the Fruit Forum to read the short piece, In Praise of the Japanese Wineberry.  I was delighted to see it likes partial shade!

Below, the full size image, again a Childs catalog illustration. 1895

Strange scans.  The backgrounds are blurred.