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Eliza Waters 
I haven’t seen that for many years
It has become a rare sight indeed. Most folks seem to prefer a mechanical dryer these days. I love the smell of line-dried laundry, so fresh!
Where’s the snow???
Ha, banished until next winter! 😉
There was a similar sight at my place yesterday! The solar + wind clothes dryer.
I just love seeing laundry drying on a line, esp. on a breezy day. 🙂
Fun to see such a domestic shot. We are fortunate to be able to sun-dry our laundry throughout the year 🙂
Yes, you are! In winter, I must use a drying rack inside, which adds much-needed moisture to the air. My own carbon off-set. 😉
Not often you see laundry on a washing line
IKR? Such a pity! It is something I happen to love and love to do.
So many people, me included, use a dryer
I realize that many choose not to hang outside or aren’t able to, but it is a practice I personally find enriching.
You made me smile with this one, and I can smell those sheets. 🙂 Seeing wash hanging outside always reminds me of traveling through Vermont and see wash hanging on all the covered porches. 🙂
Not as common as it used to be. It is a pleasure many don’t realize they are missing!
How I wish we could do that! Clotheslines are banned here, thanks primarily to HOA sorts with a concern for ‘aesthetics’ and the efforts of people committed to solar and wind power. Oh, the irony!
It is ironic. They should allow for a drying patio if it is screened with lattice or similar screen. HOAs are rather dictatorial!
Refreshing! You’re lucky you can do this! I used to love hanging clothes out on the line when my kids were little. They smelled so fresh when I brought them in. I miss that.
I wish more people did it, I love the scent of fresh laundry and it is ‘green.’ But I understand not everyone have space for it.
I miss my clothesline! For the first time in my life, I don’t have one. I’m not sure where I could install one but oh. sigh…
I am a fresh air-dry addict. 🙂 I remember my first apartment had a metal fire escape and I would peg my clothes to the railings. 😀 Die hard!
As am I, so I’ve been miserable for the last four years. Worse comes to worse, I’ll have to get one of those stand thingies – just not the same as a nice long clothesline!
People who don’t hang their clothes out on the line are missing a big pleasure in life. Nothing like fresh-smelling sheets (& towels & shirts & ….)! 🙂
For sure! I love the whole process, which I call ‘laundry meditation!’ 🙂
I hate that I live in a neighborhood that forbids clotheslines. I miss the fresh smell of sheets off the line.
Argh, HOAs are not very green are they?
Love this shot! I hung out clothes for a time, but really don’t have the room and, well, those darn birds…especially the Cedar Waxwings!
Thanks, Tina. I love fresh air-dried laundry, yum!
Yes, sometimes the birds do land a direct hit, but I just rewash. A small price to pay. 😉
One of my favourite subjet…clotheslines. This is a nice one. (Suzanne)
Thank you, Suzanne. We inherited it with the house 34 years ago, the posts are old steel and cedar telegraph poles. Long-lasting!
“….now that you’ve aired your clean laundry.” Love fresh-air smelling clothes. Haven’t had a working dryer for almost 5 years….the towels get a bit rough feeling.
Yes, but if the breeze is good like yesterday, towels get air-softened!
A very smile inducing image. There’s nothing quite like air dried clothes for that special clean scent.
Yes, truly. Thanks, Monika!
Old school! Where did all those close lines from my childhood go? And why haven’t more been resurrected as energy costs rise?
I think it is a habit that is lost. And from what I hear from those younger than I, ‘it is too much trouble.’ Saving energy and lowering your carbon footprint is too much trouble?? If so, we are indeed lost!
I associate it with my mother and childhood, perhaps I’m nostalgic? It takes me outside where I hear the birds, smell the fresh air and see the beauty of the day. Then when dried, I do the same as I remove and fold them, another meditation of appreciation. Then there’s that amazing fresh scent to enjoy!
My mother and I were just discussing hanging clothes out to dry. I told her that she used to hand wash the laundry in the front yard with a tub, a washboard, and wringer and she could not remember that. But she remembered hanging up the clothes, and how the first things she pinned up were often dry by the time she had finished with all of it.
What a wonderful memory. You must have lived in a desert?
Island of Oahu, in Hawaii. I don’t think that’s how it was during the monsoon, though. 🙂
There’s nothing like the smell of sunshine-dried washing. 😀
So true… a delightful gift of the sun and wind. 🙂
My kids were fascinated seeing wash out on the lines when we visited PA. They were young and drew endless pictures of it. Our climate is so humid here that laundry won’t dry. We went without electricity for 2 weeks and I couldn’t get anything to dry out.
I often wonder how they managed to do laundry in the hot/humid South before dryers were invented?
It had to be a horrible place to live. We also have bugs everywhere…inside and out. We had stuff disintegrate in the attic from humidity. I don’t even want to think about mold. If the AC is out for very long, it is bad news as they are dehumidifiers too.
Ugh… 😣
Nothing better 😊
For sure! 🙂
Don’t you just love the smell of fresh-washed clothes hanging outside on a line? I do this often, now that the weather has warmed. I just have to be careful to shake them fiercely before bringing them inside, for fear of bringing in some nasty Japanese beetle or stink bug!!
Absolutely! I shake and fold them outside, sorting them as I go. Makes it easy to put them where they belong once inside. 🙂
A wonderful sign of spring and it’s been wonderful having the windows open again!🙂
Don’t you know it! So happy about that. 🙂
Not for my friends in Montana. They got a nice 6 inches dumped on them last night. Warning up here. Almost got all the drip irrigation fixed and programmed thanks to Bridget. She started some dahlias from seed and they are doing well, so far. I planted some melon seeds today. Weeds are doing fantastic!
The weather all over continues to be extreme, I guess we may as well get used to it. 😦
With your winter rain, you should be set for a great harvest this year.
Weeds ALWAYS seem to do well, they are survivors, for sure.
Don’t you just love days when you can hang washing on the clothesline in the sun? I did it the other day for the first time in weeks! It’s the small things in life that can mean so much. 😉
Glad you are ‘one of the line dryers’ Joanne, you get how delightful it is!
Lovely sight!
Thanks, Maria. Guess what? My snow peas are up, woo-hoo! I followed your example of winter sowing (Mar.15) and it worked! I’m grateful. 🙂
Wonderful!!! So happy and excited to hear that!
I love the smell of laundry dried outside! In the winter, I alternate between two flannel nightgowns, draping the one I take off in the morning over a chair on our small upstairs covered deck and bringing the one from the previous day inside. This way, I get to wear a fresh-smelling nightgown each night!
I love this idea, and we have a covered porch, too. Thanks for sharing it!
I grew up in the New York suburbs with wet laundry hung out to dry on clotheslines in everyone’s back yards. As others have commented, that’s a rare sight now.
Even here in our rural area, dryers are mostly used. I’ve always been a fan of air-dried laundry. 🙂
I love this! Such a springtime picture.
Thank you, Isha! 💕
How very refreshing I also love wearing fresh night wear everyday after a warm wash. Inside and out all clean and fresh. Lovely to share times like this. Love and Blessings from Brisbane Aussie ❤ ❤ ❤
Thanks, and blessings, too, Deepa!
Welcome 🙂
The sight of your clothes outdoors makes me yearn for an apartment block with outdoor clothes lines. I can only put my clothes horse and wet washing out on my balcony on a very sunny day.
What it is to smell that sun-kissed freshness on getting dressed in the morning.
Thanks, Vicki. It is a sensory pleasure for sure. 🙂
What a nice sight to see, washing-drying weather at last, and washing flapping on a line. I have no washing to peg out today when our sun happens to actually be shining for once. We’ve had rain every day for weeks. I don’t have a tumble dryer so rely on either the washing line, or indoors clothes airers. Fingers crossed for more decent weather.
Thank you, Jill. I love windy days for quick-drying. I can get two loads out. 🙂 In winter, I use the indoor rack, it adds much needed humidity to the air.
Hope your weather improves!
I love drying laundry on the line. I try to do it with our sheets on Sundays.
Yay! Glad you’re a fan, too, Rachel. That fresh scent is the best!
I am shocked to read so many comments that washing lines with laundry hung out to dry is now a rare sight, even in areas where it is permitted! And how crazy to view washing as unsightly. Think how many tourists away from home photograph washing hanging out to dry, viewing it as picturesque 🙂
I know, it is rather crazy. I’ve taken a few tourist photos of laundry myself (Italy!). I love seeing laundry drying on the line. It is a slice of life!
A slice of life is a nice way of putting it! Perhaps the laundry puritans are afraid of real life?!
It would make an interesting sociological study! 🤣
Love this.
Thanks, Bela! I bet your laundry would dry fast in your climate. 🙂