Of Cabbages and Lilies and Pineapple Plates . . .

It was 50% off the prices of everything in the Goodwill Industries Stores in our area this weekend.
After church on Sunday, Anne and I stopped into two outlets.

At the first one, a porcelain candy or vanity dish:

It was made at the turn of the last century by Oscar and Edgar Gutherz of Alt-Kohlaw in Austria.

I looked it up. :-)

A little plaque we will send out to Alida for her California kitchen --
she says she needs decorative stuff. Be careful what you wish for, Alida!

Best part of this plaque is the back. I am puzzling over what is meant by this:

It's made in Canada.

Surely our neighbors to the north don't remove hangers in order to hang things, eh?

In another Goodwill, more loot.
4 handpainted plates, from Italy.

Hey, I said they were handpainted. I didn't say they were painted well.

But I like their goofy cheerfulness for the summer.
They are dinner sized, very useful.
(And you know I need more dishes, right?)

Finally, a cabbage leaf pedestal dish.

I'm a sucker for cabbage leaf designs.

Lastly, on this Monday, a mosaic of our lilies:

Daylilies mostly, except for that little wisp of fur at the bottom of the collage.
That's our Lily, a tricolor Cavalier King Charles Spaniel whom we adopted in 1996 through breed rescue.
Lily was a little bit of a thing -- all ears and attitude -- and three years ago, when she was 12, we lost her.

I wish I had more pictures of her; she was very pretty, and even more opinionated.
In this old shot, above, she's in someone's lap. As usual. That's our Dion's ear
you see on the far right of the picture; he was a very young boy then and wanted in on the lap sitting.

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Have a wonderful week -- Cass