Stories Collected While Living in France
Rusty and worn, though young at heart, the two chairs sit side by side. Weathering seasons of sun and storm. They wiggle their toes in the mud, lean on each other when their steps are uneven, their friendship knows where the green grass grows.
Photo: Two old iron chairs in an overgrown abandon garden.
It is always so wonderful to visit your blog with such beautiful words and images. It always cheers me up coming over to Tongue and Cheek for a visit. Thank you Corey. A beautiful post.
Very poetic, Corey… I really love this photo.
Ah love sweet love and the tender moments of life………
Ah that feels better.
Love you
Jeanne
They nestle so cosily next to each other. Thanks for the link to your mother’s garden.
A little “mud wiggling” works for me!!!
Love the way the chairs are leaning into each other. When I was quite small, I believed all things were animate in some way. That photo reminds me that I have not altogether given up that notion. Lovely post!
Ice Cream Chairs!!! I love them! I have an old yellow one in the garage waiting for some sanding…and next to it is an old hand crank White Mountain ice cream freezer. They make quite a pair as well 🙂
Love the chairs and the sentiments!
Corey,
Love the chairs. My mom is a garden queen too. Your mom’s garden reminds me of my own mom’s talent and passion. Thanks!
I just took at peek at your Mother’s garden which I seem to have missed way back when when it was first posted. It is so delightful.
Two chairs + a lot of imagination = a delightful post.
It reminds me of “La Chaise Bleue”, a book for children which is so good when you want to awake their imagination about an ordinary object…
Rustic rusty chairs getting out of the rut!
LOVEly chairs, you have brought them to life.
Something about that photo and the words you’ve written touch my heart. Really very sweet. That picture could be on a greeting card.
I DESIRE those chairs! They would look perfect in my garden! ..You certainly did give them life! What agreat painting this would make!
You have such a gift for seeing a full story from such a simple picture 🙂
You have brought these chairs to life with your beautiful and poetic words
Have you been in my garden!I LoVe rusted metal ornaments!
Good Thursday Morning, Corey. I so enjoy your daily musings and the way you bring images to life. But just today while poking around in your “chez moi” section, I realized what exactly draws me to your blog. Do you remember Victoria magazine, a lovely publication that died a sudden death — what? about 8 or 9 years ago. How I loved the elegance in the photos, color and words. And that is one of the connections for me of your work: it is elegant. It represents old world charm for worn and weary readers struggling with the harshness of life in the 21st century. You offer, indeed, not only elegant living—–but hope. Pat
Very romantic, I love how the chairs are a feature in the garden. If chairs have roots they would blossom in this wonderful setting, together.
Yummy photo…it took my breath away.
a.
Two hearts, worn with time, lean into eah other ~ for support and affection. Still young enough at heart however, they know that barefoot in the grass is the only way to move through the days they have left together..xx
I can’t even describe how much I love this photo! The vivid spring green, the crooked iron chairs! The perfect prescription for a winter day! LOVELY!
Love this photo, Corey…always a feast for the eyes here…
They look like they’re in love.
Rusty and worn.
Their seats are torn.
But their hearts are intact,
As a matter of fact.
Corey is easy to attract.
i have a dream of an overgrown garden with furniture that looks like it´s been living there for ages…
They are like an old married couple – familiar and comfortable with each other and holding each other up.
This photo just makes me feel good. Two chairs that have “lived” a good life and are still together despite their creaky condition. Things don’t lose their value just because they have aged.
Thanks, Corey.
That’s a beautiful photograph, Corey. Hey, have you ever thought about selling photographs and/or postcards of your images? If you wanted to start off small, perhaps you could sell handmade postcards or little framed photographs at local shops? Or heeey, maybe you could sell handmade cards through Tongue-in-Cheek? Just a thought… 🙂
I have a white one just like these but with arms and it has no other for company. I love that bit about them wiggling their toes in the mud.
Mmmmm. . .rust! How fabulous rust!? Such a beautiful captured moment.
I like your photos… J’aime le regard posé sur les objets et les êtres…
and enjoyed your link to your story of your mothers garden….I see where you get your imagination and style!
Oh my goodness. Those chairs made me literally create two very cute old people, sitting side by side, almost ninety years old, but still together, smiling, enjoying eachother…
Corey,
I completely agree with Susanna about the cards!!
Sheer poetry, Corey…….as is your Mother’s garden. Absolutely lovely!
Corey,
Terrific photo! Two old chairs basking in the sun without a care in the world. Touching, reassuring each that the other is there sharing the moment.
Your mom is a marvelous woman with a big splurge of character. Does any of her children take after her? ;-0
rel
So sweet….and sort of sad…like two world weary lovers.
Thank you….always a double dip ice cream treat at Corey’s house.
Ah, very sweet! I love how they lean towards one another…
Beautiful as always, Corey…
Lean on me, when you’re not strong
And I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on
For it won’t be long
‘Til I’m gonna need
Somebody to lean on
i love this photo…and the words you have chosen to place with it…divine!
It looks nothing like that where I am right now. Nothing green to speak of. So, I must thank you for reminding me that such vivid color does exist– and will be here again.
I love how an image can inspire you to write such beautiful words.
They look like they are still very much in love:-)
LOOOOOOVE this picture! It looks like one I would take if I was lucky enough to run by the scene! Love it love it love it!!!
ah green… i remember green. lovely photo corey!
Lovely old rusted chairs. Rust speaks to me. I love the old farmer’s rusted fences. Rust against green is so contrasting and beautiful; each nourishes from the other!
Annabelle ~^..^~ xo
Corey I have the offspring of your chairs in my garden. Well perhaps its a granparent of them instead since mine has been in my garden for so long that the now removed the seat from it I allow confrey to grow up through it with the wonderful flowers that comfrey has it always so pretty in summer and I love the chair even when it looks so naked in winter. I ahd two of three of them and parted with one to a dear friend and used the other as a display piece where I work. I just peaked in on your mothers garden.Now that is my kind of garden she and I would have much to chat about enjoying one anothers gardens. I love her eye for making her garden look so inviting and charming. It’s full of such old/new life.
I would love to be sitting in a chair in the middle of green grass right now. I think I am having winter wonderland blues. Thanks for the beautiful picture!
Teresa
The photo, the words, just perfectly adorable.
One of my fave posts of yours 🙂
An old couple, put out to pasture.
Hi Corey, just got back and it’s great to catch up on all your posts. This one particularly caught my attention…love the photo and your thoughts as always…Nel
I love this image, Corey, and of course your comments are priceless!
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