Monthly Archives: November 2008

  Maryvale Castle in Brooklandville, Maryland is a lovely venue for an affair.  Here the bride chose lit curly willow branches to effect a “Lord of the Rings” ambience.  The dark wood paneling was displaying in a light twinkling way.

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Do you remember Composition Tablets?  You used them to practice writing your letters.  Here we have a student in First Grade who has accomplished the basic writing skills but when the teacher is not watching draws between the lines and goes round and round about the lines.  Why do we need to grade the natural […]

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How many petals does a ranunculas have? Let me count the ways. Each petal is part of the concentric rings where inside the “circle of trust”  (Robert De Niro in “Meet the Parents”) more petals come forth. The little green seeds are berzelia.

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Glorioso lilies are stunning. Their center pushes out, opening up the heart.

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In the York Times’ Home Section this past Thursday, there was an article about a renovation done in the Hudson Valley of a home that was built for the noblesse oblige to play tennis under a vaulted roof and swim in an expansive pool at the turn of the 19th century. With that in mind […]

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