I walked around the house looking for antiques. We have a few, but I don't own any of them. However the house is older than I am.
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My Favorite Things

I confess I’m not very sentimental.  (See With This Ring and Baby Shoes)

But there are some things I own that are older than I am and that I treasure.

One is certainly the brass dinner bell my grandmother rang to call the guests to meals at her small Catskill hotel.  (See My Heart Remembers My Grandmother’s Hotel,  Hotel Kittens,  and The Cat and the Forshpeiz)

 

Another  –  a graceful ceramic pitcher and bowl that belonged to a beloved aunt who died tragically when I was quite young.  (See White Shoulders for Aunt Frances)

 

And two small silver boxes my husband’s parents brought from South America where they’d lived for several years after fleeing Europe and before emigrating to the States.  (See Tracing Our Roots)

 

And two large seashells my mother found as a child on the Rockaway beach where she grew up.  (See Still Life)

And of course the Eisenhower jacket my father wore when he served as an Army captain during World War II.  (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home)

These are among my favorite things and I’d hate to part with any one of them –  so I guess you can call me sentimental after all.

– Dana Susan Lehrman 

... it is the only thing I have that belonged to grandma Rose.
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Regular pruning is advised
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