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| Yard with acacia bush and hanging clothes. Texas. |
There is just something regrettable about a picture of a
flowering bush in black and white. In this case, the large rather nondescript
bush in the foreground dominates the photo. It is probably an Acacia. Native to
the region, the Acacia was, and is, also used as an ornamental plant. This one
appears to have slightly outgrown the garden edging it was planted within.
Looking past the bush, we again see the extensive guttering
that suggests a cistern or water tank just beyond (or below) the edge of our
picture; the hanging just-washed clothes; and some very interesting wooden
construction along the ground in the background. Like most other houses in these Olivia
pictures, the house is board and batten.
This photograph was possibly taken about the same time as
the pictures already posted of people washing clothes. (Washing clothes, Wooden Water Tank) Here we see the result
of their hard work.
I imagine our photographer, having rung the water out of the
last piece of clothing, giving each item a final “snap” to snap out the wrinkles
as they are hung on the line. Then drying his/her hands and going to get the
camera to take this picture, not of the common clothes but of the “beautiful”
bush.
The Paulsons often printed their photographs on to postcard
paper and would send the pictures as a postcard. “Mother” he/she might write.
“Remember the bush you planted? Just look how its grown. If only you could see
the color – those white (yellow?) blooms are just so pretty. And the sky was
just a beautiful blue.”
Identifiers:
Negative number: Paulson011
Place: Olivia (Calhoun County) Texas
Date: 1900 +/- 10 years
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