Pioneers Dream…Part 2

This is the second part of the Peek of the Unique tour of the Island of Homes on Sanibel, Florida. If you missed part 1, click here.

The last home on the tour was called The Pioneer Dream Home situated on a historic tract of land claimed by Sanibel pioneers in the 1800s. This home has stayed in the same family for over 100 years! Another interesting fact from this very unique homestead, the movie “Night Moves” was filmed on this site. A great cast included Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, a young James Woods, and a very young Melanie Griffith.

Crab trap buoys…

This sign sits on the mantel in the cottage. Isn’t it wonderful when something makes you smile?

How long has it been since you seen a rotary phone nailed on a post outside?

Beautiful…glass door knobs on all the doors!

This was a great vintage rustic adventure…a rare event indeed!

I hope you found some love here on this post?

Could you tell me which one your eye pulled toward the most?

Tip of the Day for Photographers/Bloggers:

Let’s talk about footers on your blog.

You might of noticed…I have changed the layout of this blog and made the footer a very important part of this process.

Readers will come upon your post, then read the comments and where does this land them? Right….at the footer of your blog!

This is an area of great importance…use it wisely.

The most popular elements to have in your blog’s footer are…

copyright information
Follow You
privacy policy
links to categories, tags, archives etc.
Social media/networking information

If you are enjoying the tip of the day and Pride in Photos, join our family by filling in your email and the inspirational posts will come straight to YOU!

Have a great day…

Laurie
XXOO

If you like this you will love:
Peek of the Unique…Part 1

Tags: crab trap buoys, island home tours, pioneers, rotary phone, rustic, sanibel homes, tip of the day for bloggers, vintage, vintage decorating, vintage lifestyle, Vintage signs

93 thoughts on “Pioneers Dream…Part 2”

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lynkphotography on April 11, 2013 at 2:17 pm said:

Love the feel of your photos. Thanks for sharing them.

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Bohemian Christian Chelle on April 9, 2013 at 2:56 pm said:

Love your blog and your photos! Beautiful. Thanks for the great tips you post. They are not only excellent for photographers, but for bloggers as well.
Be at peace today. You deserve it!
~Bohemian Christian Chelle

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JK Bevill - Lost Creek Publishing on April 6, 2013 at 11:46 am said:

Reblogged this on lost creek publishing.

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- Pride in Photos Photography on April 6, 2013 at 3:56 pm said:
  
  Thank you!!
  
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toniandrukaitis on April 5, 2013 at 11:45 pm said:

Awesome photos.

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isis on April 5, 2013 at 2:23 pm said:

Wonderful pictures, I like the style very much – thanks for sharing

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Jenny Matlock on April 5, 2013 at 9:36 am said:

I must confess that I am the teeniest, tiniest bit envious of your Really cool Rustic adventure…

And I am Really grateful you shared this post with us for the letter R…

Radical job!!!

A+

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blogginginitaly on April 3, 2013 at 5:54 pm said:

Great photos and love the guest sign!

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lensandpensbysally on April 2, 2013 at 11:59 am said:

Really like the first image–and thanks for the tip about the footer. I must give it serious consideration.

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pensamientos de vida on March 27, 2013 at 1:12 am said:

Excellent job. Thank you for sharing.

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bethany on March 26, 2013 at 3:24 am said:

Beautiful photos, what an awesome place! Thanks so much for sharing at Photog Show and Tell. I’m excited to see more pictures 🙂

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sarahlouisek on March 24, 2013 at 9:00 pm said:

Laurie, there are such wonderful hues in your photos. And I love the large pictures — however, I am finding the long lines of text very difficult to read.

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- Pride in Photos Photography on March 24, 2013 at 11:02 pm said:
  
  Thank you for letting me know your feelings on this. I will start to break up the sentences more.
  
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  - sarahlouisek on March 25, 2013 at 12:07 am said:
    
    Sorry, I just meant the wiidth of the lines of text, not the sentences themselves.
    
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bkmm5555 on March 23, 2013 at 9:09 pm said:

Beauetiful and interesting collection of rustic things. Good job

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Bethany the ngnrdgrl on March 23, 2013 at 6:00 am said:

Wonderful photos!!! I love the vintage look. I would love it if you shared this or another post with my new monthly link party: http://ngnrdgrl.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/photog-show-and-tell-link-party-1/

Thank you for sharing these with us!

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Mama Bear on March 23, 2013 at 5:42 am said:

I loved that glass knob and overall, I loved the color of these photos.

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irene on March 23, 2013 at 2:01 am said:

what beautiful photos! i am drawn to the photo of the door with the tree leaning into it. thanks for the tips.

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Amy on March 23, 2013 at 1:10 am said:

Love, love these pics!

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dmgartphoto on March 22, 2013 at 5:50 pm said:

Super like the photos in this post. Favorite – the door nob. Have a great weekend.

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storybeader on March 22, 2013 at 12:01 pm said:

great pictures. My favorite was the garland of empty clay (?) flower pots! What a great idea! Love the look! {:-D

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daily life impressions on March 22, 2013 at 10:58 am said:

Hi,
I nominated you for an award
http://dailylifeimpressions.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/got-an-award-today-or-i-am-glad-you-like-my-blog/

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Jori on March 22, 2013 at 7:51 am said:

Beautiful photo’s, and that sign is cracking me up!

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Emily Wierenga on March 22, 2013 at 3:17 am said:

beautiful photos. thanks for linking with IP.

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Katherines Corner on March 22, 2013 at 2:33 am said:

these photos make me smile!!! Thank you for joining in the fun at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop xo

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Zena (healingmoments) on March 21, 2013 at 11:31 pm said:

Oh… those are wonderful photos. Thanks for the tip of the day

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lmkazmierczak on March 21, 2013 at 9:27 pm said:

Oops, I pasted in the wrong blog entry for R! Here’s the correct R effort: http://lmkazmierczak.blogspot.com/2013/03/rain-check.html

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lmkazmierczak on March 21, 2013 at 9:24 pm said:

Love visiting your blog♫ Always informational and a visual delight♫ My R effort: http://lore-eleven.blogspot.com/2013/03/so-ready-for-spring.html

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Sofia on March 21, 2013 at 8:30 pm said:

Awesome photos! I love the hue/edit!!

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Ron Scubadiver on March 21, 2013 at 7:53 pm said:

Interesting color balance. I used to have my blog set up a bit like this, Nishita full width with a footer. The trade off is no infinite scrolling. Using Twenty Twelve I am full width with a separate “About” page formatted with a footer.

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Tracy on March 21, 2013 at 7:18 pm said:

Brilliant post I am upgrading my blog. And love all the help I can get would love 50 followers by the end of the year

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The Real Cie on March 21, 2013 at 7:10 pm said:

I like visiting old places. I wish I could trust my car enough to visit mountain ghost towns this summer.

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Laura Hegfield on March 21, 2013 at 7:02 pm said:

what a treasure trove you found!

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Lish on March 21, 2013 at 5:52 pm said:

Beautiful pics again! What a cool idea for an outdoor display of photography!

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adinparadise on March 21, 2013 at 5:49 pm said:

What a lovely old place, and your photos are wonderful. Love the crystal door knob.

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Sarah Huizenga on March 21, 2013 at 4:21 pm said:

What a wonderful place to take pictures. I would be in Heaven 🙂

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spilledinkguy on March 21, 2013 at 3:58 pm said:

My parents had a rotary phone very similar to that one for YEARS… it was a 60’s/70’s yellow, though…
🙂

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ladyfi on March 21, 2013 at 2:57 pm said:

Wonderful photos – such a lovely soft texture in them.

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Desktop Dreams on March 21, 2013 at 2:48 pm said:

Great place to visit Laurie love the glass door knob…

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ioanna aggelidaki on March 21, 2013 at 2:43 pm said:

Beautiful shots! Love the vintage touch! 🙂

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kim on March 21, 2013 at 2:43 pm said:

These are so vintage! I love the processing on these for that days gone by feel.

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Sue at Naperville Now on March 21, 2013 at 2:25 pm said:

great images of a compelling place. and your treatment of them is great.

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meriak on March 21, 2013 at 2:21 pm said:

Laurie – you gave me some dabs of visual joy. I always love your closeups — so today I loved the telephone (and the memories of being tethered to a stretchy cord and not being able to walk while I talk), the crystal doorknob, and the depth marker.

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Molly on March 21, 2013 at 1:32 pm said:

I love the outdoor phone…. it would get horribly abused by the weather here

Mollyxxx

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Beverly on March 21, 2013 at 1:27 pm said:

Love all of your photos. Loved the doors and rusted knobs.

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Tamar Strauss-Benjamin on March 21, 2013 at 12:48 pm said:

Love the picture of the doorknob! One of my favorite parts of my apartment is that type of doorknob on my coat closet – just a fun pop of character!

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LuAnn on March 21, 2013 at 12:05 pm said:

I love all your vintage photos Laurie and particularly the crystal doorknob. Thanks for the tips. I have been spending a lot of time researching WP themes as I am wanting to change mine. I’m a little nervous about doing so, I guess afraid I might lose something in the process.

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- Pride in Photos Photography on March 21, 2013 at 12:36 pm said:
  
  I don’t blame you for being nervous…I would love to self serve and am feeling the same way☺
  
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Anne Payne on March 21, 2013 at 11:54 am said:

The vintage editing rocks! At first, I thought the second photo until I saw the doorknob, and then I saw the flowers, so you can see it is a dilemma to pick a favorite. My eye was drawn by the doorknob because I was just remaking to my DH yesterday that who knew all the old things that were around when we grew up would be so popular now!

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Deborah on March 21, 2013 at 8:51 am said:

Love your images here, Laurie! I really like the vintage tones!! I’d love to visit there someday!
And thank you for these tips!
Haven’t been here on WP for a little while, and I’ve missed dropping in on you.
I’ve been using Blogger more often the past few weeks, mostly for Texture Tuesday.
Haven’t seen you in the link-up on Kim’s page, though! Hope to see you soon!
You have a blessed weekend!
http://borneimagephoto.blogspot.com

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- Pride in Photos Photography on March 21, 2013 at 12:49 pm said:
  
  Deborah, I didn’t realize you are keeping up TWO blogs…wow…that is crazy…I don’t know how you are doing this! You rock.
  
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  - Deborah on March 21, 2013 at 10:15 pm said:
    
    Well, actually I’m still undecided, Laurie! Lol! I have been spending more of my time over on my blogger site (http://borneimagephoto.blogspot.com) as I really like the size of my images better there. I have a couple of other photog friends who are using more than one blog … and yes, they do rock with all the work they do on them … I don’t do near that amount! **I also want to thank you, in this reply, for stopping there and leaving such an encouraging comment on my textured image … that so blessed me!! Have a wonderful day! 🙂
    
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1annecasey on March 21, 2013 at 8:04 am said:

Wow – so beautiful and evocative. Great photos. Like the advice at the end too!

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ajaytao2010 on March 21, 2013 at 6:10 am said:

I Nominate you in for an award,
please choose any one of them

please accept and oblige

http://ajaytao2010.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/a-bouquet-of-awards/

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Lissa @ lafcustomdesigns on March 21, 2013 at 5:48 am said:

Love your vintage adventure, Laurie … it’s neat to see things like that telephone of yesteryear. I can see you might be a bad influence on my Kobi, giving him advice to go ahead and take a lick of my frozen yogurt while I’m not looking! LOL I’m sure he would have loved to, but I was a bit of a gluten!! Thanks for visiting Walk and Click Wednesday!

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Linda R on March 21, 2013 at 3:24 am said:

Such wonderful photos my friend. Looks like such a cool place to visit.. Thanks again for sharing it with us.

Hugs~

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greenlightlady on March 21, 2013 at 2:42 am said:

Laurie, I love all things vintage… but the picture that grabbed me most was the glass doorknob. My HH made me a wooden curtain rod with a glass knob on each end. I love it! I am really enjoying your photography!

Blessings ~ Wendy

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Sherry Galey on March 21, 2013 at 12:43 am said:

OK so I love the first shot because I love seeing the b and w images displayed that way. I also love the second shot but I’m not quite sure why…:-)

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seabluelee on March 20, 2013 at 11:34 pm said:

Nice post! I loved those last two shots of the old doors. Btw, I’ve never seen a phone attached to a post outside before, but I did have that exact model of phone in my kitchen for years! 🙂

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- Pride in Photos Photography on March 21, 2013 at 2:04 pm said:
  
  I think there is alot of us who haven’t seen one outside☺
  
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elizabeththomasphotographyofcapecod on March 20, 2013 at 11:27 pm said:

Laurie I love the pic of the glass knobs. At one time I had them on all my doors. However I like all the pics. Great tips of the footer info. Thanks!

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Boomdeeadda on March 20, 2013 at 10:59 pm said:

Great photo edit’s, the colours are really appealing to us vintage hounds. Loved the rotary phone too, I have an aqua one in my office. Classics 😀

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Patrice on March 20, 2013 at 10:56 pm said:

Beautiful shots!

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RoSy on March 20, 2013 at 9:50 pm said:

I love the vintage look. Simply beautiful. And – you capture it so well.

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Colline on March 20, 2013 at 8:51 pm said:

I like the one of the doorknob: the knob itself drew my attention.

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Mammasaurus on March 20, 2013 at 8:38 pm said:

Gorgeous photos but I especially love the yellow roses – it just makes me smile!

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artmusedog on March 20, 2013 at 8:25 pm said:

Lovely photography of a marvelous tour of history ~ thanks ^_^

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Andreea B on March 20, 2013 at 8:07 pm said:

loooove all the pictures

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Karen on March 20, 2013 at 7:57 pm said:

Loving the glass door knob and the last photo – so vintage! That sign is great! xx

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Marissa on March 20, 2013 at 6:37 pm said:

All of the photos are beautiful, but I was especially drawn to the the 2nd photo, I’m guess they are wooden spools of some type on a string, and the glass door knob. Beautiful!!

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Rosey on March 20, 2013 at 5:26 pm said:

I like them all. I was most drawn to the first photo, but the doorknob got me too. Looks like a nice place to take a visit. 🙂

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Carol on March 20, 2013 at 5:06 pm said:

Love the Weekend Guest statement – too cute.

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Danielle Royalegacy on March 20, 2013 at 4:25 pm said:

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing and have a great WW.

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Tina´s PicStory on March 20, 2013 at 4:23 pm said:

wonderful pics! happy ww 🙂

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DeDivahDeals on March 20, 2013 at 4:22 pm said:

Loved it…still smiling!

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Charlotte on March 20, 2013 at 3:22 pm said:

Looks like a wonderful place! Thanks for linking up! x x

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elisaruland on March 20, 2013 at 3:11 pm said:

So creative, I love this look. Great shots!

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Stacy Uncorked on March 20, 2013 at 2:30 pm said:

Those are all amazing shots! 🙂

Psycho Mother Nature

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Suzanne on March 20, 2013 at 2:28 pm said:

So much I like from the shed to the doorknob to the Weekend Guest Sign.

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Paula J on March 20, 2013 at 1:52 pm said:

The little sign made me laugh, and my eye was definitely pulled towards the doorknob. Reminds me of my grandparents home waaaay back when 🙂

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John on March 20, 2013 at 1:29 pm said:

Rotary phone – I remember. 😉

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anotherjennifer on March 20, 2013 at 1:22 pm said:

Love these shots. The doorknob and the phone stand out to me. I love great pics of ordinary items!

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Welcome Company with Danielle on March 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm said:

Wonderful post and gorgeous photos. I loved the old glass door knob and the flowers in particular but they were all lovely – a great addition to the interesting history you shared. Thanks as always for the great blogging advice.

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Joyce on March 20, 2013 at 12:57 pm said:

Beautiful photos and a lovely vintage stroll. My eye went right to that door – mysterious!
Thanks for the tip on using the footer – going to fix mine right now!

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rhema3one7 on March 20, 2013 at 12:04 pm said:

These pics are kindling my heart yearning for more. Absolutely love it. Only now I know footer is important. Thanks Laurie 🙂

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LaVagabonde on March 20, 2013 at 11:33 am said:

There’s something very appealing about rustic simplicity. Lovely photos!

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EG CameraGirl , Canada on March 20, 2013 at 11:29 am said:

I too love the vintage look of these photos.

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Carine on March 20, 2013 at 11:27 am said:

All pictures are beautiful but I loved the flowers because of their bright yellow!

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YellowCable on March 20, 2013 at 11:25 am said:

Love the vintage look of the pictures.

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Jackie on March 20, 2013 at 11:13 am said:

I love these captures! That sign is great – thanks for the morning chuckle! 😀

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