19th-century mailbox inside a scientific specimen's globe
For the One Deep Breath prompt "container," I offer three different containers and haiku:
Cette boite d' lettres
generations' history
waiting for the mail
Creativity
for writers' emergencies
store your ideas here
Desperate to find
the right words for the story
box of potential
This little box bears
hopes, dreams and a diamond ring
promises to keep
I'm not normally a romantic, but that turquoise box and your words kinda melted something in me. I've no desire to marry, but that doesn't mean I'd turn down a diamond ;-)
Posted by: Jemima von Schindelberg | 17 December 2006 at 14:56
Ascender and Star, the glass domes were very much a part of French, British and Belgium decor during the age of exploration and remain popular in many French decors. Explorers brought home unusual specimens, shells, animals, etc. and they were stored under the glass domes. In some museums, you can still see stuffed birds, etc. under these domes. If you lean a rusty mailbox from the 19th-century against a wall, it looks like a rusty old mailbox. If you put it in a glass dome, add antique Christmas cards and stick a stuffed pheasant on the top, some might consider it art. I also have nine gilt crowns stacked one on top of the other in a similar glass dome and a Spanish sunburst silver crown inside a third smaller dome. Another large dome is filled with antique Christmas ornaments. Some people fill them with fruit or flowers. Of course art is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by: Paris Parfait | 14 December 2006 at 11:35
that mailbox is interesting... though like others curious about the dome... to keep the dust off? to preserve the bird?
Posted by: AscenderRisesAbove | 14 December 2006 at 04:25
Oh the letters and cards that must have passed through that mailbox. And les factures, aussi!
I love your style, Tara!
Posted by: Colette | 13 December 2006 at 06:56
I have one of those glass domes, it was my great grandmas - you know, I never knew what it was but you certainly gave me some ideas :)
Posted by: miss*R | 13 December 2006 at 01:30
Tara, that mailbox is such a dream. I love the Christmas card peeking out from within.
Posted by: annieelf | 12 December 2006 at 23:11
Brilliant set of haiku and photos, Tara! As ever, the antiques are lovely ... but the Tiffany's box, well, that's every girl's dream (not just Audrey!) xo, d
Posted by: JanePoe (aka Deborah) | 12 December 2006 at 19:43
What great photos. I really love the writer's box. And whatif there were really letters in the first one?
Posted by: Jone | 12 December 2006 at 15:22
I love the box of ideas! I could do with one of those to keep the old creative juices flowing!
Posted by: Kamsin | 12 December 2006 at 09:44
loving the tiffany's haiku. (breakfast at tiffanys is a fave movie of mine)
Posted by: leonie | 12 December 2006 at 09:09
What wonderful ideas and images contained here, Tara!
xo
Posted by: tinker | 12 December 2006 at 07:31
If only ideas could be contained and taken out as needed! Love your haiku.
Posted by: patry | 12 December 2006 at 06:25
Desperate to find
the right words for the story
box of potential
Nice! And all too frequent an experience for this writer. :-) Wonderful photos, especially the mailbox under glass.
Posted by: Patricia/Roswila | 12 December 2006 at 05:07
Ah, the Tiffany's blue box - I did get one once, and I kept the box and all the trimmings! Sometimes, the containers themselves are very special.
Lovely haiku :)
Posted by: Becca | 12 December 2006 at 04:17
Great poems and boxes.
Posted by: sarala | 12 December 2006 at 03:26
You know, i don't really wear jewellery
because i have a pierced nose and it
just seems to be too much but i have
always longed for something from
Tiffany's.
(like charms for my charm bracelet)
Posted by: sophie | 12 December 2006 at 00:44
I loved these pics and the haiku.. the sentiment was wonderful.
I don't know if I commented after coming back to browse through your petit tresor pics. I COVET so many of your finds. I would be out of my mind over there. The seltzer and pharmacy bottles.. the mirrors. Oh my. I just love. all. vintage. glass.
sigh.
Posted by: holli | 12 December 2006 at 00:12
I enjoy your blog so much! It is always interesting! Thank you for the beautiful pictures and all the wonderful things you share throughout the year!
Posted by: Pam Aries | 11 December 2006 at 22:42
Great photos, and I also like the ideas box.
Posted by: Sandy | 11 December 2006 at 22:37
Tara,
Masterful!
"Creativity
for writers' emergencies
store your ideas here"
Now I know what to ask for for Christmas.
rel
Posted by: rel | 11 December 2006 at 22:23
The mailbox is wonderful in itself--under the dome, not as much. But the haiku were good! :-)
And can I just say...Tiffany...*sigh* That unmistakable blue.
Posted by: Star | 11 December 2006 at 22:11
I love the ideas box. I have one too but its not so pretty!
Posted by: Crafty Green Poet | 11 December 2006 at 22:07