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Jun 07, 2024 • #charlottesville #italy #peony

Full Color Living 5/1/24

You know those weeks that just rev nonstop full tilt?  I'm in a stretch of  them.   That's not a complaint, it's more like an embarrassment of riches - life in full living color.   Usually, my garden's peonies reaching peak bloom just about now would be plenty of excitement for one week.

Don't get me wrong - I've also been working non stop.  I'm just enormously lucky in that work often feels like play for me too.   I have some really big drops in today's note, AND I'm heading to Charlottesville today for my annual peony pilgrimage to Pharsalia Farm, AND on Friday, I'm heading to Venice and the Veneto visiting the villas and gardens of Andrea Palladio.  READ MORE

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May 31, 2022 • #charlottesville #flower arranging #peony #pink

5/16/22 Paean to the Peony

My husband suggested the title for this week's note, "Paean to the Peony".   "No one will know what that means", I said, not pointing out that no one included me.   Sigh.   I looked it up and learned:   paean: "a song of praise or triumph".    Well Lordy me, that's just what I had written.  Let's sing it out to the rafters!  

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Jun 09, 2021 • #gold #peony #summer

5/28/21 - Summer Gold

Is it the dawn of summer, or my youngest child's emotional college graduation weekend, or the ability to all gather again that makes me feel like we've genuinely struck gold?   I'm rereading A Gift from the Sea (yes, still on the same 90 page book I started six weeks ago).  The chapter on the rare Argonauta shell struck a chord.  The Argonauta is technically not a shell, but a creature more closely related to an octopus.  The female holds onto its cartilage "shell" only while in need of a cradle to shelter her young.  When her eggs mature and release, the mother lets go of the shell and launches off untethered and unprotected into the sea to begin her next chapter.  Mission accomplished.  Sigh.

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Jun 09, 2021 • #blue #cocktail #ocean house #peony

5/21/21 - The Door To Summer is Opening

Memorial Day weekend is four sleeps away.  The excitement is palpable - like an evening's symphony of cicadas building to a cresendo.  Summer is coming!!!  This time it will include cocktail parties, weddings, dances, houseguests, and even hugging.   If I were to inventory everything I love about summer, the internet would crash before your spam detector could even block this email.   So I'll pick just one highlight - The Ocean House Resort in Watch Hill Rhode Island. 

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Jun 09, 2021 • #blue #charlottesville #dahlia #peony #pink #strawberry #trout

5/17/21 - Blue Ridge and Pink Love and Happiness

I had a stellar week -  I travelled down to Charlottesville to set up for a trunk show at the very chic Quirk hotel (more on that below), undaunted by the prospects of a gasoline crisis in Virginia.  Nothing was going to stand in the way of my great peony adventure at Pharsalia Farm, and a visit with an old friend and her husband.   The beautiful interiors at Quirk, along with the Blue Ridge mountains and a profusion of peonies, inspired this week's color pairing.

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