Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches and I swapped one bushel of grapes for one bushel of apples"
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![The image displays a rural scene featuring an old-fashioned fence constructed of vertical wooden slats. Atop each pole, there is an inverted glass jar with its opening facing the sky and narrow bottom down towards earth; this suggests that they are being used as makeshift finials or decorative elements rather than functional objects like preserving jars for food storage.
The background reveals a wooded area filled with tall trees indicative of a temperate forest. The foliage appears dense, which might indicate it's not heavily pruned, giving the landscape a wild and natural appearance. There is no human presence visible in this picture; hence its focus seems to be on man-made objects coexisting within nature.
The grayscale tone of the image adds an air of nostalgia or historical context, implying that these could have been captured during earlier times when such practices were common for preserving food items like fruits and berries. The photograph's monochromatic palette emphasizes textures and contrasts between different elements in a muted color range dominated by shades of black, white, grey, brown, with hints of green from the foliage.
Without any discernible branding or distinct identifiers on these jars, their exact origin remains unclear; however, this could be reminiscent of practices observed during World War II when there was an emphasis to preserve food resources. Overall, it presents a serene yet evocativ [...]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/647/477/389/883/213/original/d2567cc69a77f702.jpeg)
