Hi, there! Are you enjoying these carefree, lazy days of summer? What are your favorite summertime activities? Mine include eating ice cream (that's an activity, right?), combing outdoor markets, touring gardens and lots of walking (so I can have more ice cream). By the way, July is National Ice Cream Month :) [...]
From a 1918 letter by author, cartoonist and journalist Jame Grover Thurber (1894-1961): "...the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music...it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post graduate course in Everything." What do you love about [...]
As self taught gardeners, Tom and I spend a great deal of time and effort designing, cultivating and nurturing our gardens. We've planted every single tree, shrub, perennial and bulb ourselves. We also do all the pruning, watering, weeding, etc., etc. Of course some plants just don't make it despite [...]
Happy New Year! We just came home from a winter wonderland in Maine. It was very cold, and the landscape was calm, fresh and ethereal. May your 2014 be just as beautiful and peaceful! My very best~ Loi A country lane glazed in snow and ice. All is quiet around [...]
Hello ~ Happy December! I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving was even more meaningful for us. After searching for a few years, we are grateful to have finally closed on a family vacation home. I have to say the search was exciting but quite challenging and frustrating [...]
Above photo of cherry trees in our neighborhood Wow! How did we get to November already? Tom and I have been traveling quite a bit - lots of road trips up to New England plus a buying trip in Scandinavia. We're delighted to be home just in time for [...]
It's late July in DC and we're in the middle of a scorching heatwave. How I wish we were back in Maine where the temperatures are cooler! As mentioned previously, Tom and I spent a part of our recent Maine holiday discovering, exploring and enjoying Mount Desert Island. By the [...]
The past two weeks have been deliciously sweet and slow. Tom and I, along with our doggies, just returned from an old-fashioned summer holiday in Maine. We had a lovely time visiting small fishing villages, historic coastal towns, and Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, where we stayed in [...]
Over the years, Tom and I have traveled to Scandinavia numerous times throughout the seasons. We've feasted on hearty autumnal smorgasbords, visited snowy birch forests in winter, and scoured Stockholm's stylish shops in spring. But, there is nothing quite like the ethereal Nordic summers. The long days of endless sunshine [...]
As summer vacation starts, many of us will be traveling and visiting museums. When I worked at the Smithsonian, the galleries would stage big blockbuster exhibitions during the busy summer months. What are your summer holiday plans? Does it involve museum-going? I'm looking forward to visiting the Winslow Homers at [...]
