Other people's gardens...

Shouldn’t Snow White or Sleeping Beauty be walking out that door? Every time I pass this house I think that Disney had to have used it as a model for one of their cottages. The house predates the Disney era so it gets top billing. I love the wreath at the gate and the pod people flowers. They aren’t all from the same house, but they should be in a 2D, animated world, don’t you think? June 14

Purple passion...

Summer is bearing down on us and everything is green. The spring flowers are all but gone except for the few lone holdouts that are clinging to some color in defiance of the heat. Remember that amazing display of wisteria? I was walking past the house today and I saw this long strand of purple clinging as tightly as it could to the idea of spring. Below it, against the fence was a spring of leaves that had given up and headed towards an early fall. Thank goodness there wasn’t any snow hiding in the corner to signify winter. I like strange but that would have been too weird, even for me. June 13th

Sunset sweets...

It was hot, the sun was setting, we had just finished dinner at a not-quite-local restaurant and were heading home when my husband turned the car in the opposite direction. We ended up at Rita’s! Yum! June 12th

Malled...

We went to see a movie. A girl’s night with Stir Crazy and Midnight in Paris, accessorized with SnoCaps and way over priced and too salty popcorn. It was fun! We all liked the dinner and 2 out of 3 of us really liked the movie. I loved the idea of wandering the streets of Paris and being transported to another time. What would you give for the chance to meet Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Picasso and Dali?  What about having Gertrude Stein read and comment on something you wrote?! Need I say more?  As a bonus, you get to wake up again in the 21st century, safe in your own bed. And you do it all without the help of Alice B Toklas. I understood the main character's motivations and obsessions. I didn’t understand all the interpersonal dynamics in the people that populated his ‘real’ life but I suspended disbelief and went for a trip back in time.

When we came out of the theater, discussing our takes on the movie, I glanced down and saw these patterns on the floor. There were decorative screens on the lights casting the coolest shadows on the floor. The merits, or lack there of, of Woody Allen’s latest cinema attempt were forgotten and I focused on these. In a sea of people trying to get the best deal at Target or grab a bite at Cinnabon, these beautiful creations made me smile. June 11th

Lily came a calling...

The lilies are up! The first one of the season popped open today. It might have been yesterday but I noticed today! Yea! June 10th

Night vision...

As I drove into my driveway the other night, I was tired and ready for the day to wind down. It was late and the sun had set hours before but something caught my eye. There had been a light rain that evening and the leaves on my dogwood tree were glistening with tiny raindrops. They were backlit by my lamppost and looked quite surreal, almost Hoqwartian really. (Spell check does not like that word!) Thoughts of bed fled and I had to see if I could capture the moment. How did I do? June 9th

Alien Shop of Horrors...

I told you that the aftermath of the rhododendrons wasn’t pretty. The flowers are gorgeous but what they leave behind is a bit gruesome.  It is suggested you ‘dead head’ them to get more uniform growth… I think it is because the aftermath doesn’t look so pretty. A little like Alien Abduction meets Little Shop of Horrors, don’t you think?  June 8th