Yearly Archives: 2009
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 […]
