Spring Fling 6 - It's Spring!!

Today is the first day of spring.  I is suppose to be a beautiful day here on the east coast of the USA.  I hope you are able to get outside and enjoy the weather.

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This week we finally had some nice weather. The temperatures were in the 60's. Yeah!! Hopefully the ground will be dry enough this weekend for me to do a little gardening.

 

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Two more of my favorite vegetables.  I am getting hungry thinking of all these farm fresh vegetables.

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I just love these seed packets and have a few dozen different ones I bought off of ebay a few years ago.  The colors are so bright.  I hope you are enjoying them too. 

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Spring is almost here and like most of us on the east coast of the USA I have had enough winter.  I have been planting seeds in the basement and dreaming of a beautiful garden.  Here are a few more of the vintage seed packets for those of you who are thinking of spring.

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I have been looking through many seed catalogues try to decide what and if to buy seeds for this spring. I love to grow flowers, herbs and vegetables from seed. Usually I stary thousands of plants from seed and share them with friends and family. Unfortunately, this year I am so busy with work I'm not sure I will have time to garden. So do I or don't I? Anyway in honor of all of you who are looking through seed catalogues and dreaming of warmer times. Here are some images from a 1883 Peter Henderson Seed catalogue that I have scanned. I just love these drawings. You could even use them as digital stamps. Here is link to whole group of Peter Henderson seed catalogue covers. This is a link to the Smithsonian site with over 10,000 catalogue images. So make sure you explore the site. You will be in awe. I hope you enjoy. I know I copied dozens before deciding I could alway come back and copy more. I think I see a challenge in our future using all of these wonderful catalogue images.

As always feel free to use any of the images on my website in your artwork but please do not post or sell the original image on the web in a group or collection. If you use one in a project and post it to your site please link it back to here or leave a comment in the comments section of the image on this site so we can all enjoy. I love to see what you create. That is what inspires me to post and collect more vintage items.