Picturing the Year: Before the Rain...

Friday, April 10, 2009

Before the Rain...

Things are looking a little dreary in Arcadia...

...but I managed to hang some sheets outside for the first time this spring...

...and brought them in just before it started raining...

9 comments:

Country Girl said...: I love seeing sheets on the line. There is just something about the simplicity of it, the normalcy. Like everything's ok. Hanging them is also soothing.
My husband set up a clothes line and he uses it every day. And typing this, right now, I just realized part of the reason he did it!; April 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM
ds said...: Seeing those sheets brings back so many memories; there is nothing like the smell of fresh air on your bedding! Alas, I cannot have a clothesline where I live now, so I guess I'll participate in the ritual vicariously. Thanks!; April 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Char said...: oh...the smell of fresh linens like this. so beautiful.; April 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM
VioletSky said...: If I had a backyard, i'd definitely have a clothes lines. I put all my washing on a clotheshorse, but it isn't the same as 'catching the wind' off the line.; April 11, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Susan said...: Ditto, all the above comments and soon I will be hanging my own sheets on the line. We set posts today and will finish it up tomorrow. I can't wait. I think it's supposed to rain most of next week though, so it may have to wait a few days.

Beautiful pictures, Oliag!; April 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM
ELK said...: oh so simple
what a pick me up!
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elk; April 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Delwyn said...: Sunday is my sheet washing day, and they are billowing out on the edge of my verandah, waving to the passersby in their boats and I don't care if it looks like a laundry, I love fresh sunblessed sheets...; April 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Leslie Avon Miller said...: I remember the smell of fresh sheets off of the line...a good sweet smell.; April 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM
GailO said...: Kate - It is soothing to see laundry hanging on the line...and to watch it blowing in a breeze...better than wind chimes!

ds - The smell is actually the main reason I insist on hanging out bed sheets...that smell has never been bottled...

Char - It makes the whole bedroom smell good for quite a few days...:)

Violet - I'm afraid I'm too lazy to hang the clothes up if it isn't a perfect day for the outdoor line...but it is so much better for the environment as well as your clothes...

Susan - I would love to get new posts and lines...as you can see my line is stretched between an old shed and an old outhouse!

Thank you ELK!

Delwyn - I'm one of those people that go by houses like yours and take pictures of the laundry!

Leslie - It is sweet...It is interesting that no one has been able to duplicate it as far as I know...; April 12, 2009 at 11:54 PM

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