French la Vie

 

 

 

The brocante is all about what you find beautiful.

Practical or not isn't the question.

 

 

  

The photo of the French brocante does not do it justice. I mean look at the photo above: A heap of this, that, and the other, it doesn't capture the intensity of the sweet little things in the box, nor the details stitches of the Aubusson, or the brush strokes of the painting, or the stories being told of the objects, or the history of everyday life seen in the old things misplaced on the ground. But the soulful history is there under the heap of misplaced things, beneath the table, tucked between the pages of a book, tucked inside a trunk, and often in the hands of a lucky buyer. 

 

 

 

 

A worn true watering can. One would think it was used to nurture a garden, but actually,  it was a toilet chamber watering can.