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In a vase on Monday: Copenhagen

March 28, 2016June 27, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure7 Comments

We spent the Easter weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark. This picture was taken at the Torvehallerne (or food market, located here and on Instagram here) on Saturday.

To see a few more photos of flowers at the market, please click on any of the thumbnail images below.

Inside the food hall, grape muscari with feathers and pussy willow.

Small colored eggs and some winter jasmine vine were added to this arrangement.

The Stalks and Roots flower stand outside the Torvehallerne.

The exchange rate was about six krone to one U.S. dollar.

Lots of potted Narcissus bulbs.

Grape muscari.

The outdoor stall is Stalks and Roots.

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

The Sunday porch: Kalaupapa, Hawaii

March 27, 2016March 28, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure3 Comments

The west front of St. Francis Catholic Church, Moloka’i Island, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, July 1991, by Jack E. Boucher for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).

The church was built in 1908 to serve the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, now part of Kalaupapa National Historical Park.

The word porch — “1250-1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico” — was originally used to indicate the covered entrance to a church, usually on the south side.

Streifzug 7: Hamamelis grove

March 23, 2016August 20, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure2 Comments

. . . I would wander forth/ And seek the woods.*

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Witch hazels at the botanical garden of the University of Hohenheim, yesterday afternoon.

Streifzug means ‘foray,’ ‘ brief survey,’ or ‘ramble.’

*William Cullen Bryant, from “A Winter Piece“

In a vase on Monday: pink Muscari

March 21, 2016June 27, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure6 Comments

This morning began with my three tiny pots of a pink variety of Muscari armeniaccum in the kitchen window — along with the Schnapps glasses that I’ve been collecting from our trips in the last year.

I don’t remember where I bought the little clay pots — probably at a thrift store back in Maryland more than ten years ago. The Muscaris came from the Schillerplatz Saturday flower market.

Then I moved the trio over to our rather skinny mantel.

I also tried out a second pot of Muscaris there too.

On the dining room table, I placed a row of daffodils (also from the flower market) and some supermarket red tulips. I bought the assorted vases at a thrift shop recently, inspired by “pins” like this one.

Since I have been taking part in this meme, my vase “wardrobe” has increased tenfold, meaning I had none before and now I have ten (foreign service life is hard on glassware).

Then I moved the rest of my tulip purchase to the dining room table. . .

. . . and tried out the vase assortment on the mantel.

Where it remains.

Above is another pretty flower arrangement from this weekend’s Easter market in the nearby town of Degerloch.

And on Saturday, I had my first Spargel stand sighting — at the Marktplatz farmers’ market.

From now through May, everyone in Stuttgart will be eating lots of white asparagus. Mmhh. . . lecker (delicious).

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

The Sunday porch: Oak Hill, Alabama

March 20, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure4 Comments

The Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House, Oak Hill, Alabama, March 24, 1937, by Alex Bush for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).

A nice front porch, but not especially interesting — except that it is a Carolina (or rain) porch.

Its columns rest on masonry bases set “directly on the ground . . . in front of the foundation of the porch floor. This is a distinctive regional characteristic,” according to the registration form (1998) for the National Register of Historic Places for the Oak Hill Historic District.

The back porch, however, is more unusual.

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“[The] rear wings have integral recessed porches facing inward and creating an atrium-like space which has been roofed [with] corrugated metal. . . . [The] . . . first floor [is] essentially an enclosed dogtrot. . . .”

The house was built in 1836 by Abiezer Clarke Ramsey, a school teacher and Methodist circuit rider. In 1937, he married Elizabeth Amanda Wardlaw, a widow with four children. She and Abiezer had seven more before her death in 1854.

The house still stands in the Oak Hill Historic District.
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