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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia, just off of Interstate 95, is a place to learn about plants and marvel at nature. Each year we host GardenFest of Lights, which attracts thousands of visitors to take in the wonder of our botanical garden dressed in holiday lights and splendor. GardenFest is holiday tradition! The show […]
A dear friend just starting out in life was given seven rose buds, a gift for her New Year. This poem by Anais Nin summons the feeling these flowers evoke. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.”
The U.S. Botanic Garden located at the foot of Capitol Hill on the Mall in Washington, D.C. is celebrating the holidays with “Windows to Wonderland.” Here you see Ford’s Theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. This year marks the Bicentennial of his birth. January 30th the U.S. Botanic Garden will open an exhibit […]
Vanessa’s in the Federal Hill Section of Baltimore teases your gift money for the best vintage jewelry in a modest way. She was kind enough to give a retrospective of “the eternal flower” in woman’s adornment over the past century (speaking in the way past of course). From top left is a basket of […]
What have we here? These don’t look like leftovers from the night before. But then again it’s the early 1800’s and the weather might be nice in North Baltimore County so we could ride over to the nighbors by horse to shed those pounds away.
Mr. and Mrs. Bear got engaged Christmas Eve as so many couples do. Mr. Bear was a confirmed bachelor although he had been hugged every night to sleep. Mrs. Bear came down from the North Pole to help Mr. Bear out with those huggies. They have been a pair ever since.
Baltimore’s Miracle on 34th Street is a night lit from house to house on a one block street of 24 rowhomes. Each night a blow up of the Grinch that stole Christmas, steel car rims welded in tree fashion, the tableaus and candy canes bring the 600,000 residents of the city (well almost if you […]
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 […]