Showing posts with label pears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pears. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2013

As they date back only to 1969, the images in the Oxford Book of Food Plants lack the age they require to really move Inflammammal.  But this's a fine, fine watermelon; if I mistakenly believed this image to be 100 years older it'd probably make me cry a little.  Silly business, nostalgia!


These pears have nothing to be ashamed about either (same source):



Thursday, March 21, 2013

I usually like my fruit illustrations not to be group portraits like this, but wow, what a good-looking crowd.  German, 1894.


Saturday, February 16, 2013

An especially, even outrageously nice stamp, I think.


A couple other favorites.  I adore the way everything's depicted a bit strangely in the last one.  Are those weeping willows?  I choose to believe so.





Saturday, February 9, 2013

This is a pretty common crate label to come across.  I find it quite soothing as well as lovely.