We have returned from our vacation and I have hundreds of new snapshots. Now I just need the right time and place to use them. Regrettably, no were in all those shots or my archives was a photo of a suitcase. So I had to dig out the one I am writing about. I did a web search and found a copy of an original ad from 1951 that appears to be the same set that I owned. So I have included it as well.
Merriam Webster defines a train case as a small boxlike piece of luggage used especially for toilet articles. These cases were most popular between the 1920’s and the early 1950’s. Mine was made sometime around 1950 and is the sole survivor from what was once a four piece set of snow white, hard-sided luggage made by Samsonite.
As the daughter of an auctioneer, who ran several auction barns and resale shops, it was not unusual for a gift to have had a past life. My parents presented me with a gently used set of luggage, as my high school graduation gift. In 1964 luggage was a traditional graduation gift and my parents were nothing if not traditional, when they knew that others would make comparisons. The small fact that my gift was secondhand would, of course, never be revealed.
My lonely train case is now aged to a soft yellow and covered in scuffmarks. The once gold trim has long since worn away. It sits on the top shelf of my closet and holds what few keepsakes I have left from my youth.
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Welcome to another week of Mellow Yellow Monday. What better way to start a week then with some sunny yellow post. While running my errands this week I happen to capture the following yellow blooms as I went about my business.
These yellow Zinna's in bright yellow pots on the walk in front of Lowes had me wishing i had an empty bed to plant them in. 
I happen to notice this yellow posy decorating a large front porch.
This iron railing was guarding the first blooming roses of summer and yellow besides.
