The Saturday Picture Show, June 25, 2022

 

This is a statue that for years has stood in the school where they teach baseball managers and coaches how to greet players at first base or the pitcher's mound.

Somewhere there is an auto graveyard just for dead hearses, and you have to love the irony there. This relic is a 1939 Studebaker, and for sure it made a lot of sad trips in its day.

A knot little known to all but the very saltiest sailors, this is the pretzel knot, used for rounding up snacks.

I don't use a lot of salt, but you can have all the pepper you want. This variegated pack of peppers is certainly nothing to sneeze at.

It's curious how we stop and all pose nicely for the photographer at the scene of all non-fatal car accidents.

Fall will be here soon! This is my weekly reminder that the best season of the year has the prettiest decorations. This is flint corn, what used to be called Indian corn, and it's edible for humans and livestock. They make hominy out of it for us.

I think it was second grade when the teacher asked us if anyone knew a poem they cared to recite. I was first with my hand up! "Don't worry if your job is small, and your rewards are few...remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you." Next week, I was all ready with "There once was a man from China..." and that's as far as I got. 

This Gaetano Cherici painting is called "Feeding Baby." Actually, two babies. Very nice.

As bad as these chairs look right now, a couple of cans of Krylon and some cushions, and you'll be on the porch gabbing away in no time!

Warning sign painting is one field of art in which a painter can really feel free to indulge in self-expression. This lurid scene is enough to make me avoid utility poles for the rest of my life!