Country Home and Garden

There is something about a real home, one not dressed up to sell by stylists or modelling the latest product. But a home that is for living with elegance and comfort and with your treasures you have collected.  A place to cook good food, drink wine and sit by the fire. Paintings and pictures of family or done by friends. It is a special space, almost sacred, you have a real sense of communion when you share the wine and break the bread and tell your stories. I had this past weekend when visiting a very dear an old friend.

The garden is sprouting and weather was cold but sunny.

Picture Hanging

Hello and how was your Thanksgiving, we ate lavishly and I have so enjoyed time with my family. I have been staying with my mother and it is always a pleasure.

My mother is a great decorator and when we are together it is always changing around the furniture and sharing what is lately fascinating us. This week she had a great idea to move some bookcases which also meant the pictures needed to be arranged. A project and one we worked on all week along with the cooking and shopping.

Here was the original arrangement, then we set about selecting the drawings, all from members of the family.

And today we just finished the hanging, still needs to finish the accessories, but already a more open and enjoyable space.

A small room about 10'5'' x 12, with early morning light. She is going to put her desk in there and will use the room for reading and writing. A room of one's own.

New York

Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade

It has been over 10 days, gosh where do the days go. When I started off to New York a couple of weeks ago my laptop died, I learned it was part of the recall of the MacBook by Apple, a faulty chip had to be replaced. Now my Mac is as good as new and I am back to my blog, which I have missed.

I was in New York where my daughter Kate is and had some lovely moments as well as seeing a good friend and one of my favorite views of the city from the Brooklyn Promenade. Ahh New York....

Later I visited my sister and Mom in Vermont for several days of family, food, wine and great conversations around the table.

So much fun, never enough time.