Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Ghost of Picnics Past



This one obviously had a history. The plates are worn, but not too worn, every piece is there, the flasks have provided for many cups of tea or coffee. There is even a little compact 2-in-1 salt & pepper set.

I wonder if it saw the beach or the mountains? Whether it travelled far, went fishing or on summer holidays? Or was this a weekend-picnicker? A family, on a picnic blanket or a table. With a dog, or maybe not. Packed up in the back of a station wagon, or was it a caravan? Salads or sandwiches. Cakes or biscuits. Sausages on a barbecue, cold meat in an esky. Orange cordial, fruitcake, pie. Mosquitoes & flies. Can't you just see the memories? I can just smell picnic.

2 comments:

  1. Totally Gorgeous find...
    love the colour and just too complete...
    I think a stationwagon...
    Got to love a old holden stationwaggion with it's wind down back window and bench seats...

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  2. I'm right there in the picnic. Big fifties skirt and heels, perfectly coifed hair-do!
    Love the blogging-by-proxy and your sisters taste for what I think some are calling Kitsch (spelling). I'm at my mother-in-law's who hasn't thrown a thing out in her 80 years. I'm sure your sister would go NUTS here.

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