Yearly Archives: 2008
Remember how I was attempting to do a Hogarth Curve with the urn from the Talbot County Historical Society. Well the more I looked at the arrangement the more I saw the need to put the Latin Lady roses above the Stargazer lilies as well as below them, in essence making a diagonal line. You can see […]
When was the last time I walked in the woods? By myself? Last week in the Adkins Arboretum forest. Fortunately two women nearby were walking the trails so I could hear their voices in the distance. I felt vunerable and turned to the recorder punching random numbers to hear about the three stories of the forest, […]
What a find – a 10″ cast iron urn at the Talbot County Historical Society store. I needed an urn at a good price and there I got one. I feel it my duty to show some of the styles of arrangements that are judged by the various garden clubs. This one is the Hogarth […]
We drove to Tilghman Island tonight with a friend for dinner. Along the way we passed The Maritime Museum in St. Michaels with its octagonal lighthouse, then up the drive to the Inn at Perry Cabin then down the neck of the road where at one point you can see the Eastern Chesapeake Bay on […]
The approach to the Inn at Perry Cabin is stately, a brick drive, two cars wide with an allee of linden trees. Joanne Effinger, who mastered the landscape, came to the Inn around the time that it was owned by Laura Ashley. Thirty-five geraniums wilted and thirty-five more were planted. What you see today are […]
