Step inside the pages of Southern Sensibility, a new interior design book celebrating the sophisticated, colorful warmth of Southern living. You’ll find beautiful interiors that bridge modern everyday living with the time-honored past. Happy Wednesday! I have a beautiful new interior design book to share and giveaway, courtesy of Gibbs Smith Books: Southern Sensibility by…
The first Saturday in September is designated as National Hummingbird Day, a time to celebrate these fearless flyers that bring beauty and wonder to our backyards and gardens, with tips to support them during migration. Happy Saturday and National Hummingbird Day! If you’re a hummingbird lover, watching them at your backyard feeder or zipping from flower…
source We’ve battened down the hatches in preparation for Hurricane Florence. We’re 300 miles from the NC coast, but remember the damage from Hurricane Hugo in 1989 when it came ashore in Charleston and traveled inland to Charlotte, taking down over 80,000 trees and leaving us without power for a week. According to the National…
While our preferred method of exploring Key West was by foot, this 4 mile by 2 mile wide island is an ideal size to navigate by bike or scooter. Accessorizing your basket on your bike makes for happy motoring. . . As well as a colorful paint job on your scooter~…
Seeking Indigo for Rainbow Summer School for Mrs. Matlock’s class, led me to return to Charleston, SC~ which we visited several weekends ago. From South Carolina Indigo Plantations The Forgotten Cash Crop of History: Indigo, or indigotin, is a dyestuff originally extracted from the varieties of the indigo and woad plants. Indigo was known throughout the ancient…
We recently visited Charleston, South Carolina for the weekend. In addition to a diner’s destination & delight, it is a city chock full of wonderful architecture. . .full of columns, fluted pilasters, wrought iron, and architrave moldings on historic buildings and homes. We park the car for the weekend when we arrive and enjoy walking, so we don’t miss anything. . .it also helps offset our calorie consumption :-) History…
Mrs. Matlock’s Rainbow Summer School is now in session~ This week’s color of the Rainbow assignment is Green~ I thought I’d share some Green from a weekend visit to Charleston, South Carolina. At first glance this wrought iron appears black, but is actually considered Charleston Green. The color originated after the American Civil War, when the North provided black paint to…
“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~Albert Einstein Visit Hey Harriet for Shadow Shot Sunday & for more Weekly Words to Live By, stop by Notes from A Cottage Industry~
I’m joining Hey Harriet for Shadow Shot Sunday. Be sure to visit Hey Harriet for other Shadow Shots.
We interrupt this blog due to finger trauma. A trip to Urgent Care & six stitches later, I am happy to report that my finger survived, but my friend Ginny’s sweet grandmother’s (Meemaw) glass pedestal did not :-( It put up a good fight, it was wickedly sharp. I have all 10 fingers,…