100 things a blogging challenge: 1

[untonuggan]

I thought I'd follow oursin 's example with the 100 things blogging challenge. Also similar to oursin , I couldn't think of one thing to blog about, so my theme is going to be something along the lines of "random things I like." We'll see where that leads.

For today, here's a historical photo of a garden from the Library of Congress's photo stream. It's taken in New York City in 1921 or 1922. It looks like such an oasis to me, sort of Tree Grows in Brooklyn-meets-jungle. But of course it was all carefully planned, because it was part of a gardening exhibit.



From the description:

This garden was comprised of three lots at 117 and 119 West 55th Street, owned by Charles Clinton Marshall who lived at 117. At the 1922 City Gardens Club of New York City exhibition at the New York Camera Club, Abby Story Marshall won "Before and After" Special Medal for the garden she developed from the three back yards. Today: House and garden not extant.