There is
nothing
to writing.
All you do
is sit down at
a typewriter
and bleed.
...Ernest Hemingway
This typewriter has been turned into yard art. It is in my friend’s wonderful garden of creativity. My mother loved her typewriter and this photo reminds me of her and my typing class at Paul Revere Junior High School. (a bit of trivia...Christy Brinkley went to school there before being discovered). My mother was great at writing or typing correspondence and keeping in touch with her family and friends through the postal service. It has become a lost art, receiving a letter in the mail.
This is one of my all time favorite CC photos. The colors and composition!! Looks like a detailed illustration or painting. What cool yard art. Your friend must have quite the garden.
A great use for the old typewriters ... I certainly did not like using them in the old days where you had to be so careful not to make a mistake.
Much prefer today's keyboard with the softer touch.
I adore everything about this wonderful setting, photo and all that you wrote! I caught up yesterday for myself, ordering Shutterfly cards and writing 8 letters! I totally agree about the lost art of pen-and-ink letter writing! Much history will be lost without those letters! (But then again, children won't be able to read script either!) *sigh*!
@Weezilou Oh Louise...if we ever got together, we would have a lot to talk about! I have some family letters from the 1800's but they have been read, typed and put in a binder. Plus, my mother saved a lot of interesting old letters that are still in boxes from moving them in 2002. I don't understand why they are not teaching handwriting anymore? We not longer need to have a signature?
July 17th, 2018
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Much prefer today's keyboard with the softer touch.
@joemuli Funny! You boys will be boys! :)