Such is my adoration for all things green and leafy that even pictures of veggies bliss me out. That'll be me standing in the produce merchants, dreamily contemplating the wall of seed packets. Better than a gallery if you ask me. And don't even start me on seed catalogues (especially one like greenharvest, with its page after sensuous page of organic, exotic, rare and heirloom gorgeousness).
Now as it happens, I'm also pretty partial to mid 20th century ceramics, and so there were barely suppressed squeals of delight on the day when, wandering through the Daylesford Markets, I eyeballed not one, but one dozen pieces of almost mint condition Salad Ware.
One glance at those deliciously quirky graphics and it was love at first sight. I'm particularly fond of those silly sprouts. Even the logo's cute:
Designed by a young Terence Conran for the Midwinter company in 1955, Salad Ware has become extremely collectable in recent years. Even when I stumbled across it - back in, oh, 2002 - I had a feeling I'd robbed the stallholder blind. But on checking some recent internet prices, well, let's just say my accountants are talking to Sotherby's about insurance.
Pity really, as it makes me afraid to eat off them. And life's far too short not to use the good china.
But back to edible veggies. Sorry, this post is just a thinly disguised excuse to show off my ridiculously verdant veggie patch:
Springtime in Eumundi - purdy and tasty. From top left: baby cos lettuce :: peas :: mixed asian greens :: mizuna :: Linda Woodrow's wonderful Permaculture Home Garden - my current bible :: beans :: weird black/green capsicum :: spring onions :: more Salad Ware :: more spring onions :: cherry tomatoes (world's most delicious weed).
Yeah, I've become a born-again veggie gardener. Kind of makes me wonder what I've been doing with my life; it sure seems to be one of the better ways to spend your time. So much to learn, so much to cook, so much to eat ...
On that note, I'm thinking this could be - excessive alliteration warning - the Summer of Seventy-Seven Salads. (Okay, so I only got up to five with Winter of 100 Soups, but there's always next winter.) Stay tuned ...
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do do do do. (sung to scary music). that same Salad Ware was talked about on the Antique Road Show "Priceless" serious just the other night. You might have to attend the next Australian ARS so that you can feign surprise at how much it is worth and how much you have made in a few short years etc etc etc
P.S. I love vegies too
Aaaah - synchronisity at work again Purl
.... but unfortunately I don't want to sell it...
Not much hope of building on the set though, unless I win the lottery....
Nice ceramics! I guess you might like this:
http://www.ingelaparrhenius.com/wp-content/uploads/porslin.jpg
Thanks Ingela, I'm off to look now!
I'm intrigued to know how you set up that lovely block of 16 garden snaps. I presume you brought them together in 4's in some other program, then imported each set of 4 photos into Blogger as a separate centred entity, right? I feel my hands are tied behind my back when it comes to doing interesting layouts on Blogger. I wish I could import grids...or maybe I just need more skills. I have lots of print layout experience, but cannot get pleasing effects in this medium though I've been blogging for 6 or 7 months.
Thank you for your comments Chartreuse.
Yes, you are correct - I put them together elsewhere - in Picnik.
It's an online photo editing programme that's free and fun to use. Just go to picknik.com, upload photos from your computer, then pop them into a mosaic.
Then save to your desktop and import into Blogger just as you do any old photo.
Cheers
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