Carlisle Flowers
All Aboard. We are going to the Baltimore City Fire Department Cross Country Train Garden for another ride on their toy trains. This time as we round the corner we spot Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee home of the late “King,” Elvis Presley who can be spotted throughout the Garden. Just like the children’s book, “Where […]
Tea in the Conservatory at Winterthur, the home of Henry du Pont from 1880 to 1969, is recreated as part of a special exhibit, “Feeding Our Desires,” a look at the evolution of flatware over the past 500 years supported by the Tiffany Foundation. du Pont collected over 85,000 American objects made between 1640 […]
Spider Mums are so powerful. White ones with some pretty greens like camellia is the opposite of a woman’s black dress. Stand alone, smashing. The roses have the white teeth but not Colgate white. The eye is drawn rather to their lovely red lips. We got a good thing going. Just a bit of red […]
The Garrett Family, railroad titans of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, lived in Evergreen House in Baltimore, MD from 1878 to the 1940s. They were collectors and philanthropists. Among their rare book collection are the signatures of every signer of the Declaration of Independence. Here is a basketball court which the Garretts converted to a […]
“Silver Bells, Silver Bells. It’s Christmas time in the city. Ring-a-ling…” You pick Elvis Presley’s version of the song or Bing Crosby’s. Both great. Here they sing with football mums and red dogwood twigs.
The Christmas tradition lives on at the Baltimore City Fire Department Cross Country Station. They’ve been drawing the child in everyone to see their Train Garden since 1952. At one time there were 220 different motors running to blow the smoke, turn the merry-go-round and let the ice skaters slide across the mirror of […]
