Sometimes a house will call to me from the street.

And I will answer in the only way that I can, "Yes, I will honor you, and show you to best advantage".


The Historic District, Savannah, Georgia, March 2010.

What can you do for St. Patty's Day?

You can find a beautiful fountain and dye the water the color of sparkling emeralds.

You can paint your shutters green.........

and add a lantern, to lead the little people home.

You can celebrate with a wonderland of gingerbread.

And delight in the bloom of the azaela, and the coming of Spring.

Photos from Savannah's Forsyth Park and Victorian District.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

The Cloud

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelly

Tom takes his own, most beautiful photographs:

And one of me.

October 10, 2009 Tybee Island, Georgia
Photo credit below the jump, to Tom Harrison
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What can you put on a wall?

A dancer, a sheer bit of magic, a lemon tree hook and a lovely picture, a bit askew.

Bamboo and tangled branches, flowers of shells.

Bits of green and brown and gilt, soft and hard, woven and printed and painted,  and stolen from the sea.

                                        

                                                          

                                                                                         

Summer on Jones Street

Sunny and leaping wild green. 

What can you put on a shelf?

Shell flowers from a New York gal of another era, the time of El Morocco and The Stork Club, cigarettes and shoulder pads, a stiff scotch and hats made by Halston.

A drawing of a dear friend.

A shell from your mother's collection.

And more--


A vase from a thrift shop, so perfect, it felt like a gift.
Vintage fabric framed in bamboo.
A peacock from China.
And a mirror'd ruff of shells.