southern lace cookies
garden to table
with valentines day right around the corner, i thought i would share these dainty lace cookies.
recipe follows after the jump
finding flora in the winter
instant inspiration
even though we live in the south, it still gets cold here. right around this time of year it becomes a little harder to find colorful flora. you might find a few a few camellias here and there but that is about it. i decided to take a walk in our state botanical garden’s indoor garden. it was so nice to see some flowers blooming and take in some of the colorful beauty. sometimes it is just what you need to get you through the long winter.
a walk in the woods
in the country
we’re tired of cold grey weather here. last weekend, even though it was just above freezing, i decided to just bundle up and head out for a long woods walk. no signs of spring yet, but lots of interesting textures…
ghosts along the mississippi
homes and habitats
another book of southern images…this one by clarence john laughlin.
made in the late 40’s, these poetic images are of plantations, privies, dovecotes, gravesites, and other places. many are strewn with spanish moss, and some feature laughlin’s signature surrealist touches: the use of double negatives or ’spirits’ wandering the sites.
the book has great words and stories about each place in words written by the photographer himself:
“Ruin opened its iron mouth, and laughed…over the altar of so much dead beauty…It is the face that hangs over [this] world…”
