The park of a Baroque villa or palace, location unknown, 1900, by Hugo Simbergin, via Finnish National Gallery on flickr.
Category: design
In a vase on Monday: yellow and pink
This weekend, I made two arrangements with roses, spirea, and hydrangea — all from our yard.
I like red and pink together, but I find dark red so difficult to photograph. It just swallows all the light.
I put the yellow arrangement on the coffee table.
That orange rose is the only one that’s fragrant.
To see what other garden bloggers have put in vases today, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
The Sunday porch: Strawberry Hill
My first “Sunday porch,” from August 2013. . .
Strawberry Hill plantation, Greene County, Alabama, in 1939, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The front porch is often a box seat for the theater of the garden or the street. This one seems to have half drawn its curtains against the buzzing, chirping action of the cottage garden below.
The mid-19th century house still exists, although without the vines and flowers. Its surrounding land is now a cattle ranch.
Vintage landscape: shady spot
Garden of “As You Like It,” the James Harper Poor House, East Hampton, New York, ca. 1915, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Commons on flickr.
Poor was a New York City businessman (dry goods) and Shakespeare devotee, who, in 1899, bought a shingled American Colonial country house, part of which was built in the 17th century. He then changed its style to English or Tudor Revival — all half-timber and stucco, as was so fashionable at that time. Today, the property is The Baker House 1650 bed and breakfast.
The Sunday porch: Austin, Texas
A repeat porch from June 2014. . .
“Remains of log dogtrot house near Webberville Road. . . Austin Texas,” 1935, probably by Fannie Ratchford, via Texas State Archives.
Unfortunately, it’s a little out of focus, but still beautiful.
. . . I woo the wind
That still delays his coming. Why so slow,
Gentle and voluble spirit of the air?
Oh, come and breathe upon the fainting earth
Coolness and life!— William Cullen Bryant, from “Summer Wind“
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