Posts tagged: maine

White Light 8/14/23

White Light 8/14/23
This is my morning coffee view for the next few weeks.   I am a lucky girl, and I know it.   My morning routine is a long loop walk, ending at the local store where I buy a cup of coffee and sit and admire this view.   My habit started some 30 Augusts ago, same loop but at a jog, and no sitting at the end.   Then the jogging was replaced by pushing a baby stroller.  Then a baby and a toddler stroller.  Now a walk and a sit.  A walk and a sit and a think.  READ MORE

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9/13/21 - Falling into the Forest

9/13/21 - Falling into the Forest

Why I went to the woods ... unfortunately it was not to follow in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau.  I went to the woods because a fall collection is really hard for me to design.   I don't like brown or orange or rust or gold.   I like coral and aqua and pink and lilac.   I like sitting by the ocean, or being in it or atop it.  I like the feel of the sun on my brow, and the garden getting more glorious everyday.   I get a mean case of the blues every year when summer ends.   

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8/16/21 - August Postcard from Maine

8/16/21 - August Postcard from Maine

Greetings from glorious "Vacationland" (the Maine license plates actually say Vacationland).   We have enjoyed our beautiful first two weeks in my idea of paradise, but the last two days have been full of fog, to the point where the sea salt in my little salt dish is all clumped together.   A perfect opportunity to pick up the proverbial pen, or keyboard, as it were.

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