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Garden at Woodbrook: (1930) Cloisters of Loveliness: a sheltered nook in a garden at Woodbrook In February we were pleased to show the work of A. Aubrey Bodine, a former photo-journalist for the Baltimore Sun whose work won him recognition worldwide. “Crooked Trees” showed the stark contrast of snow curiously laying […]
Met a wonderful woman this past week whose husband, a World War II veteran, died the week before. He was buried in a cemetery for veterans north of Baltimore. She said that the family and friends were not allowed to go to the grave site to bid their final adieus. Instead they had to watch […]
Yesterday was Tulip Dig at Sherwood Gardens. Every Saturday of Memorial Weekend the public can dig tulip bulbs for 30 cents a piece. After consulting the lay-out of the gardens I choose “Texas Gold” to brighten my garden next Spring. Advised to put bone meal in a whole about 6 inches down I […]
Guess what we had for breakfast this morning. The ones you don’t see here!
Alexandre Descubes, born in Mauritia in the 1850s, was first employed by his country as a cartographer. Later he worked for India when he painted watercolor botanical drawings of the native habitats of India, Pakistan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, the Himalayans and the Malayan Peninsula. Extensive botanical info on each painting includes the family, genus, species […]
The primer, “Japanese Flower Arrangement in a Nutshell” written by Ellen Gordon Allen, is a “go to” book. Mrs. Allen was the daughter of Major General Walter Gordon, U.S. Army and the wife of Major General Frank A. Allen, Jr. stationed in Japan in 1955. Her interest in flower arranging grew as “an antidote […]
The Moribana Form “C” arrangement calls for the subject flower (to the far right) to be leaning dramatically to the right over the container. Ours is not so dramatic because we need a low rectangular container to pull it off properly – not in a round bowl. This conjugation of flowers has a subject, […]
Baltimore is a-bloom with azaleas, brilliant gems just in time for the second gem in the Triple Crown to run, the Preakness. This coming Saturday at Pimlico Racetrack Calvin Borel will ride Mind That Bird, the horse that improbably found the driest part of the track at the Kentucky Derby to win 50 to […]
Happy Mother’s Day. A design of two balsam wood panels and 3 test tubes in between this Slovakian Vase gives the impression of being two dimensional when in effect it is three. We googled Slovakia vase and here’s what the search engine brought to our attention: The Sofia Design Week to be held in […]
You can follow the Susquehanna River from the Chesapeake Bay in Harford County, MD past Harrisburg, PA, near the site of the nuclear melt-down at Three Mile Island and beyond. In the early ’60s, everyone was not as ecologically with it as they have become more so today. We must liken the Three Mile Island […]
Paupers’ Graveyard and Memorial Title Paupers’ Graveyard & Memorial Photographer Fermanagh County Museum Date June 2007 Location Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh Description This memorial was officially unveiled on August 28th 1995 at a Commemoration Service to mark the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of potato blight […]
It took a while to determine that a wisteria vine was not hanging from a Paulownia tree. Their lavender color and grape like clusters confused the beholder. Pictures taken on a grey day in Baltimore at either side of Staples parking lot.
