a hive of busy bees

i picked this book up right after i made this illustration...now my eyes are searching for bee hives everywhere. i've been really concerned about colony collapse disorder and it has inspired my work.

this book isn't so much about bees, but rather about two children, joyce and don, who want to spend a summer with their grandparents in the country. christian life lessons abound! wholesome fun and quite lovely too.

there is another book as well, another hive of bees.

a hive of busy bees by effie m. williams
1931, gospel trumpet co.
1939, metropolitan church assn.
illustrator not credited

our wedding

and now for something a little different...i think this book technically may fall under the ephemera umbrella (which is a lovely umbrella, i must add)...but it is housed in my personal library along with the books i share here, so i decided to include it. it's also a bit personal with an interesting story too.

this is the wedding book from my great great aunt irene's marriage to her husband wilmer in 1943. irene married old to a religious zealot (although a kind and gentle man as my father remembers him). apparently wilmer was never without his bible and spent a large portion of his time "speaking the word" (and sometimes in tongues) to neighbors and towns people. he was eventually placed in a mental institution for speaking the word a little too fervently and later died while receiving electroshock therapy.

our wedding: form for the solemnization of matrimony with certificate
by the methodist book concern
1939, abingdon-cokesbury press, new york