There's something so tender about the early evening in a city, when the streets dim and windows begin to glow, revealing little vignettes of life inside. A woman with an apron at her kitchen sink. A lamp turned on beside a favorite chair. A flicker of warmth from a fireplace.
I came across the photograph above and couldn't stop staring.
I couldn't stop staring ... and imagining. It's got to be Paris right? What is the woman with the apron making for dinner? Gougères I bet. Yum, my favorite. Who does the leg in the window above her belong to? Her son or daughter? Or a stranger in another apartment? Or a perhaps a handsome stranger she'll fall in love with in the film adaptation spinning about in my head. What scent does our undoubtedly beautiful apron-clad protagonist wear? It has to be French, of course. It's turns out to be the leg-man's mother's signature scent too, and that's how they strike up a conversation in the elevator. READ MORE
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My Garden Groweth 3/24/25
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
Party Favors 12/11/23
A friend's husband once called me "the gift fairy". Gifting is definitely my love language. In my version of heaven, I would just give all of my jewelry away ... "You have the most beautiful auburn hair and hazel eyes, these earrings would be perfect on you". "Oh, you love the Brindle earrings? Then have these!" "Off to Tortuga, Robin? - here!" Vail, Jane? - "This is for you!" Can you hear me wistfully sigh now, "if only..." READ MORE
Home and Hearth 10/9/23
Home for the Holidays 12/5/22
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