Dreaming of highways and cars and vintage suitcases {Found on Flickr}

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The open road is an incredible place. At times lonesome, others crowded and frazzled. It calls and whispers, beckons and tempts, it is the beginning and the end.

After a week of heavy grey skies I awoke at 7:30 this morning to a stream of pale sunlight. Nostalgic light, the kind that takes you back to childhood summers and makes you long to go running to the nearest beach – or to head out for a weekend trip somewhere, anywhere.

But alas, I do not have a car and it’s far too soon to contemplate toe dipping – unless I want hypothermia. Instead I’ll live out my desire to heed the call of the road via Flickr images that invoke a very vintage feeling of driving, traveling and looking gorgeously well-dressed for the warmer months.


{Hitting the open road, vintage style}




1. Crystal Cove 2005, 2. round and round we go, 3. May 1954 Seventeen, 4. Vintage 1940's shoes and battered suitcase, 5. Nina, 6. 7.29.08, 7. 1950s lemon yellow dress, 8. Bird watching, 9. March 1955 Vogue, 10. The Vintage Suitcase, 11. DSC_0269 copy, 12. Florida Fashions of Orlando, 13. iso vintage suitcases {Click on a link to see a larger version of a particular image and/or for photographer information}


Whether you are parking it at home or heading out onto the highway, I hope that all my lovely readers have a marvelous weekend!




{PS}

Ooohh, this a week of wonderful firsts for me! On Monday I tried my hand at Polyvore for the first time, and today I’ve begun playing around on Big Huge Labs. Both are proving to be oodles of fun!

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