Hang onto your spring bonnets - this one's a big one. Welcome happy Monday morning! I arrived home from my Florida adventure last Monday to be greeted by a sea of hellebores, daffodils, forsythia, camellia and tulip magnolia in full bloom. Mother Nature's welcome party - WOW thank you! I dragged my "HEAVY" bags into the front hall, and out the back door I skipped, eager to survey nature's blossoming ladies in waiting.
Strolling through the garden, I found myself in full conversation, "Oh my how you've grown Miss Camellia, almost halfway up the fence now aren't we?" I had worried about her and her two sisters during our unusually frigid winter here in Virginia. READ MORE
Posts tagged: ceramics
7/4/22 Garden of Earthly Delights
My mother was a gardener, as was her mother. In my late twenties, my favorite garden-related activity was to read books where other people wrote about working in their gardens. It all started with Dee Hardie's column for House Beautiful, "A View from Thornhill Farm". Each month, I'd find a quiet moment to savor the new issue's colorfully inspiring interiors, saving Dee's column to devour last - just like a favorite chocolate in a sampler box. Read more
6/6/22 Shell-o Summer
Oh Lana you are looking oh so fine. I secretly want to spend an entire afternoon just hanging about in that big pink clam shell, lazing idly among all those pillows. How about we throw in a good summer read and a bag of Cape Cod Waves potato chips while we're at it. Ah ... what a perfect lazy summer day that would be.
6/28/21 - Postcard from Nantucket
Lucky me spent last weekend visiting my fabulously talented friend Merrill Strange on Nantucket. When Merrill is not busy working on her beautiful hand painted ceramics, she likes to pack a walk, a bike ride, a swim and a tennis game into every day. I've never been so happy I don't play tennis - there is no way I could keep up. We walked, talked, rode bikes to Sconset (and to Surfside, Madaket and Steps beach), swam, drank a little wine, and ate a lot of delicious seafood and fresh strawberries. I called her Miraval Merrill.