There’s a full-blown beauty pageant underway in our flower garden these days! The leading contestants, Clematis ‘Ramona Blue’, purple bearded iris and Allium ‘Purple Sensation’, are trying their…
Have you ever found yourself looking for fabric, felt, yarn, string or wood beads in a very specific color? I recently took on a project that required all…
Along the Camino Portugués, an ancient pilgrim route from Portugal to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, traditional wayfinding methods have been replaced with modern,…
The star of this week’s post is the Rose of Sharon. This flowering shrub, officially Hibiscus syriacus, is also known as Althea or Hardy Hibiscus. It’s a prolific…
Eye miniatures were a thing about 200 years ago. These miniature portraits, usually painted with watercolor on ivory and incorporated into jewelry, focused solely on the eye. I’m…