While perusing the antique store booths, I'm always looking for botanical prints, etchings, and unframed prints. Imagine my surprise when I come across prints from an old Travelers Insurance calendar. The images are all farmhouses, small townsquares, and landscapes... and $2 apiece.
Perfection!
I pick out two that I think will work as a pair...
The back of each print has a calendar on the back from a month in 1981. I can tell a little old man owned this particular calendar. Each day has a little note about the events of the day: "rained 3 inches"; "retiree event at Little Rock Air Force Base"; "hot and DRY"; "Robert came by." I love little details like these.
"October Landscape" reminds me so much of Tennessee just south of Nashville...
... and "The Mill Stream" looks like east Tennessee.
One word: love. And also maybe homesick.
Another word: unframed. So I head to Hobby Lobby to try and find frames for these oddly-sized prints. As luck would have it, frames are 50% off! (I act surprised, but everything is always 50% off there, right?) I happily score two traditional, black frames for $18.
Now to find somewhere to hang these beauties.
Happy treasure-hunting!
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