thanks again to design*sponge for including us on friday.
here are some more images from the supper. hugh’s recipe for shrimp rolls follows…
enjoy!
rebecca standing in the door of her idea shack:
the light inside is insanely beautiful- dim, but glowing.
meanwhile, outside…
we all loved looking at the reisling gelee’, or as we called it that night, “Fancy jello shots”…
our friend nancy calls them “natures embroidery”. they weave their way up our trees, through our windows, along the sides of our homes, and across our ceilings. many of us have a love hate relationship with them. one one hand they knit a lovely fabric of natural beauty and the other hand, well….they take over.
enjoy these photos of southern vines that i have seen throughout the years…
spring is finally here! the daffodils came first, then all at once, the white pear trees, the pink japanese magnolias, the yellow forsythias. peach, apple trees, and redbuds will soon follow. the grass is vibrantly green and the sky is rain washed blue. the brown dirt is crying out to be planted, but before the rush of gardening chores begins, we will glory in a hillside of daffodils…
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.
on warmer days out in the idea shack, i can study my cotton; learning its’ symmetry and its’ gestures, absorbing its’ character and rhythm. back in my ceramics studio, i’m working out the colors and making the plates. once it all comes together – loads of cotton plates will fill the shop.
David lived around the corner in the late 80s, when the house was still occupied by members of the family that built it in 1903. When David set out to buy a place of his own years later, he remembered the little cottage on Pulaski Heights that he had always thought ideal. It had since become a rental so he found the owner and after a surprisingly brisk and successful negotiation signed a sales contract without even having been inside. Naively, he took three weeks off work to “fix the place up,” but it wasn’t until many years later, under Cassie’s influence, that the table saw finally disappeared from the of the living room and hammers and drills from the kitchen counter.
The house sits very near the street, so we installed the shutters you see in these photos to maximize privacy while preserving ventilation. French doors lead from the front porch into the library and we are able keep the house open to the outside for three seasons of the year.
Most of the art in the house is by local artists and friends. The blue bird was painted by Andy Cherwick.
well, it’s warm today, but it looks like winter. all the recent wind and rains have taken every last leaf, but now we get to see the tree’s architecture and appreciate their true personality.
fall is officially here, and temps are cooler. no excuse now not to get outside and OBSERVE! i eagerly look for signs of leaves changing color, sunlight coming at a different angle, leaf shapes on the ground under my feet, all are inspiring. find your nearest park or woods and hit the trail. time to appreciate the changing of the seasons!
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