SusanSavad

During the Golden Age of Radio during the 1930s and 1940s when radio was its most popular, the radio became the center of family life offering news and a wide range of entertainment.

The love of music is evident in this image of a violin and bugle with sheet music. I'm sure a duet will follow.

Baritone horns and trombones, part of the band's brass section, practicing before a parade.

Imagine the excitement of a woman going to the general store and finding this collection of colorful embroidery threads for her embroidery project.

Image of bolts of cloth in many colors and patterns being sold in a general store

Often the kitchen becomes the center of many family activities including sewing. The warm, cozy kitchen becomes the perfect place for this sewing machine.

Tapestries have been made for thousands of years. It is usually woven on a vertical loom. In the middle Ages, tapestries were designed to protect medieval rooms from damp and cold weather. Now they are considered works of art

Ddesign of penny candies (licorice, gum drops, gum balls and candy canes) in a general store.

This kitchen pantry with its old-fashioned hurricane lamp bring back warm memories of childhood.

This square glass decanter of oil sitting in front of wooden salad bowls is beautiful as well as practical. It would dress up any dinner table.

Design of empty canning jars on a shelf waiting to be filled with the coming summer's fruits and vegetables.

Homey kitchen with a delicious plate of strawberries welcomes guests.

Design with its basket of eggs and wooden mixing bowl near a dish towel on a windowsill.

Design of a sewing machine in a Victorian home with a beautiful lithograph on the wall

Now sewing is a favorite hobby but there was a time when people made their clothes. This room had everything needed to sew clothes: a sewing machine, pins, pincushion and buttons set up on a convenient sewing table.

In the 19th century, ladies would go to the general store to buy their sewing notions such as buttons, lace, thimbles and cloth.

The general store sold many types of sewing supplies such as this colorful display of ribbons ready to trim the dresses and bonnets of the local ladies and for little girls to wear in their hair.

Design of skeins of yearn hanging on a rack waiting for the next craft project

Before clothing was mass produced and was made by hand, this catalog showing the latest fashions was much prized by the women of the town.

In the 50 years after 1846, when Elias Howe patented the first modern sewing machine, the sewing machine became a necessity for every household.

Design of colorful embroidery thread, a bright red pin cushion and embroidery sissors

I saw this colorful display of red and yellow peppers at the New Amsterdam Market, an open air farmer's market near South Street Seaport in New York. Beautiful as well as delicious.

This image of a Farmer's Market where they are selling onions and potatoes

Image of a selection of fancy gourds in many colors and shapes

A festive meal would be incomplete without some type of delicious bread. At this dinner the lucky diners are being treated to cornbread and dinner rolls.

Strawberries primarily ripen in early spring. You know it's time to pick them when they are bright red. from top to bottom

Design of a delicious plate of sliced bread with knives in the background

These pickles and jellies being sold at a local farmer's market and beautiful as well as delicious.

Farmer's markets are always very colorful in autumn because of the pumpkins and gourds that they have for sale.

I love walking through farmer's markets because of all the vivid colors and interesting shapes and textures of the fruits and vegetables. These colorful hot peppers were being sold at a stand at the New Amsterdam Market, an open air farmer's market near South Street Seaport in New York.

Delicious and colorful fruit, apples, avocados, oranges and strawberries, are the stars of this fruit stand in Hoboken, New Jersey..

Design of a colorful farmer's market with its many beautiful fruits vegetables and flowers

A bialy is a chewy, flat-bottomed roll with a depression in the middle sprinkled with chopped onions. It reminds me of my childhood when my family would have bagels, bialys, cream cheese and lox on Sunday mornings.

In the United States peanuts are the most popular choice. Here a basket of peanuts was brought along on a picnic to be enjoyed as a healthy and tasty snack. The image itself, with the textures of the peanuts, basketand folded cloth behind it makes a beautiful still life in its own right.

A bagel, made from wheat dough, is a type of bread traditionally shaped by hand to form of a ring. This design is hundreds of years old and historically the hole had a practical use in that string or a dowel could be threaded through it for easier transport.

Autumn harvest still life with a bowl of delicious red apples and plates of nuts and seeds.