Posts tagged: fall

One Foot into Fall 9/15/25

One Foot into Fall 9/15/25

Here we go fall.   I’ve decided that I would find September and October much more appealing if they didn’t come right after August ... say for example, if they were slotted in to follow December.   Just picture some nice golden leaves wafting outside your window, and a bonfire to look forward to, say right behind all the holiday bustle.  Doesn’t that sound nice?   I'm realizing that it’s not September or October's fault that they took summer away -  I think it's time I try to be nice to them.   READ MORE

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Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Last Monday, I promised to stop singing the end of summer blues, and I'm fulling intending to make good on the pledge.  In the words of that unexpected poet, Jimi Hendrix, "The blues is easy to play but hard to feel". 

How about we lean into the playing part?

Today's note is filled to the gills - oodles and oodles of new goodies to share, sprinkled with some of the best blues from the world of design.

Care for a soundtrack to kick off the new season?   I've made one for you on Spotify here - "Rock Me on the Water" ( no surprise there) and I happily promise that it doesn't include a single chord of Jimi Hendrix.  It's filled with old favorites to deliver a spring to your step, and maybe even get you singing along.  READ MORE

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Sunsetting on Summer 9/1/25

Sunsetting on Summer 9/1/25

The hurrah of Labor Day festivities is always seasoned - for me at least - with a dollop of melancholia, a sense of an ending.  A touch of grey drifts across my last lobster roll of the season, just one of a string of bittersweet "lasts".  Goodbye to Sunday night sunset cocktails on this beach above, so long to riding my 20 year old bike along the golf course to our small summer church, farewell to late afternoons needlepointing with friends on the beach, adieu  to the leisurely la la land that is August in New England.    For me most of all, Labor Day oozes with goodbyes to dear friends and the warm embrace of this small community. 

Yet I know how lucky I am, this melancholia is only the shadow cast by gratitude.  READ MORE HERE

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Into the Forest 11/4/24

Into the Forest 11/4/24
"A silent forest is a retreat for the mind, a spa for the soul."
- author unknown

I took this photo ten days ago, when my dear friend Frances organized a photography study group trip to the Glenstone,  a unique 300 acre outdoor contemporary art museum in Potomac MD, combining sculpture, architecture and nature.   READ MORE

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Boho Elegance 9/30/24

Boho Elegance 9/30/24
I spent last weekend on Nantucket with some dear old friends.   Despite nonstop rain and incessant winds which managed to sink several boats in the harbor, we had a ball.  Of course that brings to mind all the communities from Florida to North Carolina, still reeling from the devastation of Helene.  Our thoughts and prayers are with you.  My friend Sarah Tucker, whose home on the west coast of Florida narrowly escaped the flooding, has shared this link to purchase supplies big and small through Amazon, which will be delivered to areas in her community that were the worst hit.  Sarah knows the organizer personally, and "can absolutely vouch for her delivering this into the hands that need it".  How amazingly brilliant that this effort can be organized by distributing an Amazon wish list?  READ MORE

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