[Leica] Img: Afternoon Exercise

[Douglas Barry]

Yes indeed Jim, my grandmother served me apple tart on willow pattern. 
She couldn't do peach as they don't grow very well over here at 53 
degrees north.
As for the tea cup, you can't beat drinking tea or coffee from fine bone 
china.

Douglas


On 22/09/2019 19:34, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Taking a break from my library book, I looked around for a suitable 
> subject for a photo exercise.  The most suitable were found in my late 
> wife's china cabinet.  Here are a couple from her diverse collection.
>
> The first is important to no one but myself.  It is a single piece of 
> English China in one of the many Blue Willow patterns, and it was the 
> plate on which my Mother served me my piece of pie, usually peach, 
> because we had peach trees, during the depression years of my 
> childhood, in the 1930s.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220193.JPG.html
>
> The second is one of about a dozen English tea cups and saucers in 
> assorted patterns that my wife inherited from her Grandmother. These 
> apparently made their way to Mississippi after a visit to her Canadian 
> family members, and have been jealously guarded ever since.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220197.JPG.html
>