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Nothing evokes warm memories more than thoughts of time spent in grandma’s kitchen. Family gatherings for holiday meals, helping bake cookies and stealing bites of dough, or simply sitting together at the table listening to grandma share a store about her younger days which causes us to pine for such a time. Today’s Image-Lunch with Granny reminds us of those days. A neat but well used kitchen features an old time wood burning stove flush with a few pans, a milk glass pitcher bursting with fresh parsley, and a partially opened oven door offering heat to warm the room as well as dry two towels hanging from the open door. A stool, aptly placed near the open oven door cradles a table cloth and towel likely used to prepare today’s lunch. On the opposite side of the kitchen is a curtainless window letting as much natural light in while also framing the room.
A simple wood table is set; a percolator coffee maker and coffee mugs sit on one end of the table while a soup bowl and ladle sit at the other. The center of the table is plumb with baked goods and a basket boasting a blue and white checked cloth–most likely filled with some sort of sandwiches. Perhaps old fashioned cucumber ones. Plain blue metal chairs finish the table’s ambiance warmed by a somewhat frayed light fixture. The cabinets, countertops, and shelves are brim with necessities: a vegetable bin stuffed with peppers, lemons, and potatoes, glass canning jars of beans and rice, a spice rack, an adorable house nestled with eggs, various sizes of cutting boards, a milk glass pitcher chock-full of fresh basil, a few serving plates, a pot rack mounted carefully above a cabinet area is well-used holding more than pots. A second small wood rack hangs on the wall next to the window keeping hold on a small green pot, yet another cutting board, and a linen bag. This is obviously a well-loved kitchen! If one looks long enough one notices various sundries adorning this space. All welcoming anyone who arrives to come sit a bit…enjoy some coffee and conversation.
Items featured in this image are from several awe-inspiring creators: 8f8, Minimal, Insurrection, and Nutmeg most notably. For a more detailed explanation of what is used please check out Kidmann’s Flickr photo.
Whether you are looking forward to quality time with grandma or wishing she were still here to share such with, this kitchen is a prodigious reminder of a slower time in life; a time when sitting talking, laughing, crying with people took place more readily.
Congratulations Kidmann! Thank you for sharing your amazing work with us!