My Artsy Side – An Image & A Story
Having Art In My Heart
During my travels across America, I have become fascinated with containers found in old-time general stores. This was probably the most complete store shelf I ever ran across. It was in The Museum of Appalachia near Norris, Tennessee. That is one of the top 10 places I have visited.
I have probably spent hours looking at zoomed versions of this photo.
One of my favorite things to look for when I visited local or regional museums were containers. Back in the day before TV commercials, magazines, and such, the primary way to get attention to their products was by creative packaging.
This picture was taken in the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. I will give you more details about the park in a future mosaic. For this mosaic, I just what to focus on the containers I found there. Each one tells a story of it’s own.
Now that I am beginning to populate this new artsy site, I have discovered that there are certain types of artsy that draw me in more than others. Those are Containers, Flowers, Texture and Reflections. I am a regular visitor of historic sites and almost all of them have an old-fashioned general story filled with containers.
Flowers are probably the main reason for RJsMosaics. Their beauty, variety, and mind-boggling intensity fascinate me. The closer I look, the more I am entranced. Texture, specifically brick walls, as shown in today’s M53-mosaic. I don’t really understand this one, so I will let it go without much explanation. Reflections fascinate me. When I visited Ottawa, Canada, that solidified this as a favorite. There will be many pictures coming in that variety.
I don’t know if there are others out there that share the love for these categories, but if there are, I have put those four as subcategories that appear at the top of each post on the home page. Just click on the name and you will see more pictures in that category.
Back in the “Good Old Days”, no respectable household would be without at least a 25lb can of “Pure Lard”. I can remember dad buying lard a pound at a time, but that was about it. Lard is simply animal fat that is rendered, after it was cut off the butchered animal. Rendering was a process of putting the fat in a large kettle and boiled, and then straining it through a sieve. Sounds scrumptious, doesn’t it?
You might be asking why I have a picture of a lard can? It’s because one of my hobbies is documenting old containers of the past. I have hundreds of pictures of containers, so this will be the first of many to appear on my mosaic.
