Tell Me A Story: Galatians 5: 22

Thursday, October 15, 2015

SEED PACKET ART

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Original (95 year old) antique seed packets were discovered a few years back when the William D. Burt Seed Company building in Dalton, New York was torn down.

The bulldozer that was clearing away the debris accidentally uncovered a buried trap door that led to a forgotten cellar. In the cellar were boxes covered with wax and filled with the never used seed packets.

Thus sealed from air, moisture and light, the packets retained the vivid and pristine colors of the flowers and vegetables. The packets were stored and forgotten in about 1917.

Antique Seed Packets

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http://www.seedart.com/flower2.html

History of Seed Packet Art

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http://www.seedart.com/discovery.html

These antique seed packets

were exquisitely hand lithographed by
artists 95 years ago.

Not only are the packets valuable
as art, but historically they depict many varieties and colors of flowers and vegetables that are considered extinct today, and may only be seen as images in these packets.

http://www.seedart.com/flower2.html

Here are my creations for new seed packet and garden art designs.

They would also make beautiful images for cards, posters, stationery, T-shirts, pillow and woven-throw blanket designs.

"Flowers have an expression of countenance

as much as men and animals.

Some seem to smile;

some have a sad expression;

some are pensive and diffident;

others again are plain, honest and upright,

like the broad-faced sunflower

and the hollyhock."

Henry Ward Beecher

"A fairy seed I planted,

so dry and white and old,

there sprang a vine enchanted,

with magic flowers of gold."

Marjorie Barrows

"I perhaps owe

having become a painter

to flowers."

Claude Monet

"Adopt the pace of nature:

her secret is patience."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just living is not enough,"

said the butterfly,

"one must have

sunshine,

freedom

and

a little flower."

Hans Christian Anderson

The fruit

of the Spirit is

love,

joy,

peace,

patience,

gentleness,

goodness,

faith,

meekness,

and

self-control.

Galatians 5:22

The Holy Bible, KJV

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Sunday, October 4, 2015

EMPTY

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Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Are you hurting today?

I want to share words of encouragement
that fit the empty places in your heart.

Empty

vacant
blank
vacuous
having nothing inside
void
containing nothing

Do you have empty places in your heart like I do?

I'm grateful for those people who have shared words of love that fit that empty places in my heart.

Thank you

for your loving words.

Sometimes you say something...

and it just fits in this empty place

in my heart.

I hope the messages and photos in my
STORYTELLER greeting cards touch a special place in your heart.

HOPE

is grief's best music.

May your heart always be filled

with the joys of simple things.

"Man cannot discover new oceans

unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Lord Chesterfield

"Life is like riding a bicycle -

in order to keep your balance,

you must keep moving."

Albert Einstein

Do you feel forgotten?

Remember, GOD knows your name.

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Let me wish you a Happy Birthday.