oh my!

dear friends, how are you today? my head is spinning! tomorrow we will be heading to montreal to take dylan and elle back to montreal, how fast this summer has gone. so fast, too fast, oh my! see head spinning!

she was twirling as the sun set

yesterday i was preparing dinner in the kitchen while the boys where at the park with the dogs, elle was too quiet so i ran up the stairs to find her doing ballet! the sun began to set, little gifts before my eyes, i wondered how i would ever put my camera down..

vintage thursday's! the dress in the clouds

i want this dress so badly

lately i have escaped to the places i speak too often about. today for just one moment of reality i stood outside as the apple blossom blew like fragrant snow all around me. it was magical.. i wish i had this dress on for then, the places i dream about and reality would have embraced and given me a moment i would visit through for eternity.

fruit

life begins to bare fruit! many changes are taking place some very big ones..

the life of a red cupboard

the childrens bedroom

the living room


the studio

my shop french dressing

the things that we love seem to make it into all my special
little places.

peonies

Peonies by Mary Oliver

This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers

and they open ---
pools of lace,
white and pink ---
and all day the black ants climb over them,

boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away

to their dark, underground cities ---
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,

the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding

all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again ---
beauty the brave, the exemplary,

blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?

the gardner heist

at five minutes to six my husband and i were running down washington st., trying to get to the library. I love a last minute sprint it always wakes the parts of me that had been sleeping for far too long. he grabbed my hand as we ran up the marble steps for three floors. at the top charles our friend and novelist was waiting. we were all there to attend a reading from the author of the book " the gardner heist". i would like to say good things about the discussion but it lacked facts and depth but as it always happens, left me wanting to know more. in 1990 two men dressed as police officers stole over five hundred million dollars worth of paintings including a Vermeer from the Isabella Gardner Museum. Although theories are abundant they most relevant is that perhaps a mobster had stolen these paintings. the isabella gardner museum is one of the most beautiful museum's it has the most stunning courtyard in the center of it drenched with sunlight( a piazza) . the paintings have not been found and most likely are in some attic or dark basement, but if you are like me we romanticize it, believing that someone had to have it, could not live without it. perhaps a gift for his wife or her husband but that is only for hollywood. the frames still hang on the wall of the museum, isabella in her will said that nothing could be removed or changed in the museum ever, i would like to think that they hang there waiting for thier return... did i mention that there is a five million dollars award no questions asked:)

if i was a daffodil

when i lived in england i would take long drives. every where i went daffodils covered the ground. I would find them growing under benches and trees, covering rolling hills. a carpet of yellow-how this made me happy. I would bring a bunch home and put them in every room using every vase, glass i could find. I loved how they announced spring even on the cloudiest of days!

strawberries, wellies and a little girl

i have been having so much fun with my niece and nephew. i love being in the kitchen with elle. listening to dylan tell me who invented the radio. there has been huge living room tent night no electricity night, backwards dinner night and our continuing game of monopoly. I took these pictures while we prepared a large breakfast that had me sleepy all day!