I used to collect old
fashioned three pronged forks. My
grandmother’s fork disappeared in the early seventies. If I saw one after that, I bought it. I was very obsessive about this.
We had a third or fourth
visit to the store by a lady yesterday who collects fruit. She told me that she could no longer take care
of her too hundreds of trays, bowls, pitchers, and assorted loose fruits. She had no one to leave her collections
to. She’s giving them to us.
The first load was
lemons. The second was oranges, and the
third was pears. This latest bit of her
collections has filled the store with a variety of all of those fruits plus pineapples. I spent an hour photographing them yesterday
morning. After lunch, I Photoshopped
them and got them up on Facebook as an album.
I’m still marveling over the quantity and quality.
I just love the stuff in that store!
ReplyDeleteSpy was a good movie
ReplyDeleteAs you may have guessed I am recuperating from a hot day walking in the marsh and then onto dinner in a torrential downpour. I saw you photos and it reminded me that I had a set of yellow and green cabbage plates and bowls that I had purchased from the expensive Horowitz(?) catalog and I have no idea where they went. Shows you have value changes as we age.
ReplyDeleteIt's odd what people get into.
ReplyDeleteLovely lady. It feels so good to unburden oneself. Humour is the best medicine. So is giving away an obsession with ceramic fruit.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a collection of fruit cups and saucers that we found in a house we bought when the kids were toddlers. The former owner said they weren't theirs. They were marked "Made in Occupied Japan." Later when we moved to a smaller house I gave them to a friend who really had a collection.
ReplyDeleteBeen traveling to family celebrations. Really wears me out these days. Celebration for first grand-kid out of high school and going off to college. Eek!