Hanging out the Clean Laundry

                              

In the midst of the sunflowers, the clothespins wait to hold the garments that have aided my children’s memories under this blue sky. Many a tale they have heard from the pockets of Sacha’s jeans. Sweet are those secrets they pin to their hearts.

                              

The long leg laundry basket, stands with pride with her folded goodness. The towels soak up the feeling of dryness and enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling! The jeans wonder: How they survived a thousand tumbles, and question their purpose in life.

Photo: Clothes line in the sunflower patch: What stories do your clothes tell while hanging out to dry?

                        



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12 responses to “Hanging out the Clean Laundry”

  1. ParisBreakfasts

    clothes pins!
    You clever duck you…they are so filled with nice memories of sweet smelling sheets and breezy wash blowing in the wind (sorry Dylan 🙂
    Merci

  2. ParisBreakfasts

    Hmmmmm…I would just like to know your secret for making folded clothes so evocative!? Humph

  3. Carrie Sommer

    Only you could make laundry beautiful! I wish I had a field of sunflowers to hang my load to dry in…

  4. There’s really nothing like line-dried clothes and sheets. Now I’m really going to have to get a clothesline for next summer, the indoor drying racks just aren’t the same.

  5. The clothes hanging out in my back yard right now are all fighting in the mistral wind. I think I overheard them saying: “Now, who left the kleenex in their pocket, again?”
    Hopefully, the wind will blow away all those kleenex crumbs stuck to the clothes 🙂

  6. Paris Parfait

    Ah, you know the trouble – the chic Parisienne neighbours would object if we dared to hang clothes on our balcony. 🙂 Lovely post, Corey. I adore that long-leg laundry basket!

  7. Paris Parfait

    OK – I admit it – wrong spelling – Parisien, not Parisienne (unless they were all women). 🙂

  8. I was admiring my Mom’s clothes line in her back yard this morning when we were there to clean out the house…….It is a sad empty feeling for me right now to know she no longer lives there
    but calls Heaven her address now.
    Grandma is now living at my Uncle and Aunt’s home.
    It is a summer like no other.
    August 12, 2006 our world changed in an instant!
    Hugs to you
    Embrace every blessing!
    Love Jeanne
    X0X0

  9. Shannon Lewis

    My clothes tell me:
    “Please tell your children to use a tissue…thanks”

  10. cruststation

    With weather and scenery like these, hanging out the washing is beautiful love the laundry basket so lovely in its rural setting.

  11. Elaine Hillman

    I remember the smell of the sheets on my bed after hanging on the clothesline all day. They smelled of summertime, sunshine and the outdoors. Memories as sweet as watermelon sugar.

  12. where we used to live in maine, i loved hanging out my quilts on the line…colors billowing in the wind & smelling oh so outdoors’ fresh…saying, look at us, so carefree & loving it!

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