Peaches from Central Market, Lancaster, PA
Detail, 18th century block printed bed hangings, quilt, and headboard, Newport, Rhode Island
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He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interior Detail, Townhouse / Cabinet of Curiosity, London, England
Interior detail, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf
Detail, wooden window shutter with wrought iron hinges, Historic Odessa.
Photo courtesy of singledoubt
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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
Detail, building exterior painted peacock green with white trim, Leipsic, Delaware.
Detail, window frame with original panes of glass, circa 18th century, Historic Stenton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘No Fear’ - A boat tied to the docks awaiting its next departure in Leipsic, Delaware.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
~William MacNeile Dixon
Handmade wooden baby cradle with homespun linen cover, 18th century, American, private collection, Newport, Rhode Island.
Sunlight through the trees against a clear blue sky.
Whitewashed door with wooden latch and painted metal handle overhanging the Brandywine River.
