Carlisle Flowers
Wickliffe Castle, a home designed by Baltimore architect Wilson L. Smith, was built for Dr. and Mrs. Walter Wickes in 1912. The 182 acre estate was originally owned by Charles Carroll, a Marylander and only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. It replicates a late medieval castle similar in design to Warwick Castle in […]
by Carlisle Hashim The Guggenheim Museum on 89th and Fifth in New York City is round. Designed round, a piece of architecture where the viewer rarely encounters intersecting lines. James Turrell, the 20th Century Light and Space artist, was commissioned by the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Guggenheim Museum to fill the top five tiers of […]
Some practitioners call it Rock Balancing. Some call it the ancient art (or Zen) of Stone Stacking, while others call it cairn or dolmen constructing. Often remote & anonymous, these simple stone-on-stone sculptures speak to us like microcosmic written stories (bookmarks). We can read them as locators (breadcrumbs), places of ritual, icons, dancing spirit beings, calendrical circles, lightning rods, forts, falling stars, or other […]
Shame, shame on us- fried chicken, spicy no less for Sunday dinner. No veggies except coleslaw. Hubbie in line for the family style box, movement to my left compelled me to get out of the car. 100 yards away were neighbors from the Radford-Winston area of North Baltimore (near Loyola College ) who were […]
The Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library concluded its House Beautiful Series with “Hillwood: Living Artfully with Marjorie Merriweather Post” . The Executive Director of Hillwood House and Gardens, Kate Markert marked the storied life and career of the “American Empress” Ms. Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress of the Post cereal fortune, was an only child. Her […]
The camellia is the subject of an online exhibit at the University of South Carolina, Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books. Mrs. Sheffield Phelps and her daughter, Claudia Lea, (1930s-1950s) the donors of the Library’s collection of garden books, were past presidents of the Garden Club of South Carolina and their garden, Rose Hill, in […]
