#virginia
Portrait of five members of the Virginia Military Institute Gymnasium Club from the 1885 edition of VMI’s yearbook named The Bomb.
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Past flowers.
Yesterday I returned to old photos of my kitchen garden back in Virginia. Today’s nostalgia is for flowers from the borders. All were taken over several growing seasons, in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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this breed of walking dead villains specifically scratches my brain
Cappahosic Oyster Company, on the north bank of the York River, Gloucester County, Virginia.
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While we’re on the subject of Victorian glass oddities …
… how about a covered glass mustard pot and spoon in the form of a bull sticking its tongue out? Manufactured by Atterbury & Co., ca. 1888, in the collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Reveal
The object from yesterday’s identify-the-item post is a bird seed box. Every well-appointed birdcage in well-to-do Victorian homes would have one. This piece, from the collections at the Chrysler Museum of Art, is attributed to the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company of Massachusetts, and was made between 1826 and 1888.
Thanks to everyone who played along. Guesses included a perfume bottle or bottle stopper, a sconce, and a bottle for oils. The best guess submitted was from @brucespencer, who suggested it might be a laudanum bottle. One has to keep one’s stash somewhere.
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![Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7f9d390130a07f9e8c0a5550f613880b/f035f927e399e814-14/s1280x1920/785646a746ea25f6eafdaef84ca0f6d5e395d5fb.jpg "Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog")
![Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog](https://64.media.tumblr.com/eaef0f0b5805c9070932d84f13300693/f035f927e399e814-0c/s1280x1920/c33691461df008dd7680259a806b211caab4a7fa.jpg "Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog")
![Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b418feb87e4456eabf091c8b4431bd1a/f035f927e399e814-08/s1280x1920/50cc7bcb5aeaf785ee53535c4bcfcfbe76637cb7.jpg "Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Kousa dog")
Kousa [Japanese] dogwood (Cornus kousa) at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
Kousa dogwood is a widely planted ornamental landscape tree. It is resistant to the fungus that causes the leaf anthracnose and blighting that has decimated native dogwood trees (C. florida) in eastern woodlands.
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I wouldn’t have posted back-to-back tern photos, except that this bird is wearing an ankle band, which is always fun to see.
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Blowout.
Royal tern / charrán real (Thalasseus maximus). At Mill Creek, in the Phoebus community, Hampton, Virginia.
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Ancient glass, from the collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
From top:
- Bowl, 1st Century Syrian.
- Flask, 11th Century Persian.
- Gourd bottle, detail, 17th Century Venetian.
- Bottle, beaker, and bottle with handle, 1st - 3rd Century Roman.
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Norfolk KeelsbySam Gilliam, at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk Virginia.
The work comprises large panels of draped, unstretched canvas painted with acrylics. The panels are suspended from the skylight in the museum’s Huber Court. It was commissioned for the space in 1998.
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