The photographer Michael Edwards and his wife started a terrific blog, Pictures of my Mother.

I spend a few nights a week walking around our Brooklyn neighborhood trying to imagine what it looked like a hundred years ago. I am constantly pointing things out to L like some crazy, 'Look at that one! That was probably a country house to some super rich aristocrate".. Yeah, I have no idea. But when I think about the past - the way back past - I don't think that the people were in any way like us.. They wore petticoats and hamhock sleeves and used weird salves. But then you see a picture like this and you realize that, no, they gossiped and had pimples and took goofy pictures, too.

[Katharine Wright and friend Harriet Silliman, half length, smiling and facing each other]
Wilbur Wright, 1867-1912, photographer
(link to more images by Wilbur on LOC, here)

Split Pea & Russian Photos

It is a rainy Sunday evening, even though its August there is a hint of Fall in the air.. the only kind of August weather which permits (sane) soup-making and granola batching..
Split Pea Soup recipe from 101 Cookbooks (find it here)

..And for this gray foggy day we present you with the very colorful photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)

Mr. Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took these photos between 1909 and 1912.
Check out The Big Picture to see all 34 of them. Absolutely amazing.