Monday, 3 February 2014

As we were - 1974

Flower Jane has started a new link up, a photo of how we were at different times in our life. My 'blast from the past' was taken in the field behind my parents' home. It's summer and the seventies and I'm wearing a cream calico Laura Ashley dress and, for the benefit of the photo a straw boater decorated with flowers. The swing is homemade, just rope with a wooden seat slung from an overhanging branch. I've always loved to swing, best of all in the sunshine with bare feet.

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  1. WendyMcLeodMacKnight3 February 2014 at 15:09

    Oh you look like you stepped out of the early 1900s - how beautiful!

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    1. Share my Garden14 February 2014 at 13:50

      Summer sunshine and bare feet, that's a combination that always makes me feel happy!

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  2. Connie3 February 2014 at 16:23

    I remember going to London in the 1970's and seeing all the pretty English girls in their Laura Ashley dresses. You were one of them!!!!!

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    1. Share my Garden14 February 2014 at 13:47

      I was in London in the '60's, Connie, (and thought myself 'swinging') but by the '70's was a young mother and not at all metropolitan.

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  3. nilly4 February 2014 at 01:44

    A beautiful butterfly in the Yorkshire Dales?

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    1. Share my Garden14 February 2014 at 13:44

      I was in Coverdale, Nilly, but not much of a butterfly. My left arm was in a splint as we were working on the barn that is now our small holiday home and I had damaged my wrist. I now own the garth but the tree died so the swing, sadly, is no more. I would love to have one!

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  4. Starting Over, Accepting Changes - Maybe4 February 2014 at 02:44

    It looks like a painting and is just lovely and joyful.

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    1. Share my Garden14 February 2014 at 13:52

      It's an old photo and the colour has gone rather strange so you are right that it does have a painterly quality. It does capture how happy I was.

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  5. Paula4 February 2014 at 02:58

    Oh, timeless!

    Do you know Gustav Klimt's soulmate Emilie Flöge?
    http://mnat73.blogspot.co.at/2008/10/moda-1906-emilie-flge-y-gustav-klimt.html
    http://lightcolorsound.blogspot.co.at/2011_05_01_archive.html
    She comes to my mind when I look at your photo.

    While you were swinging, I was fiddling my mummy's autoharp:
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Uc_KWkEJxg/Uu18Z7_g_TI/AAAAAAAAIVU/3wXVVK48H_U/s1600/_DSC6305.JPG
    (ca 1975) :-)

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    1. Share my Garden14 February 2014 at 14:05

      I love Klimt's work,especially his portraits of women. I would certainly like to wear some of the outfits and fabric designs that he made for Emilie to wear.
      I saw you playing the harp on Jane's posting - I was expecting you to be wearing wings!

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    2. Paula14 February 2014 at 15:11

      :-D
      The wings make me laugh out loud. *giggles*

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  6. flwrjane4 February 2014 at 05:19

    What a fabulous picture. It should be a book cover.

    Thanks for joining in.

    hopefully we'll do it again this month: get ready!

    xo J

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  7. Anonymous16 February 2014 at 13:43

    Gorgeous photo, truly magical! And I love that you are wearing a Laura Ashley dress. :)

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