A View from Fall….

Trish — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:33:01 +0000

Thank you to all who have inquired. I am hale and hearty

and knee deep in my many little passions: chiefly

gardening, tweaking the colors of my world through paint

and dye, and collecting small representative bits of an

18th century world. After a Summer of loving having my big kids

around…it’s back to editing the flotsam and

jetsom of twenty years in this old house and starting

on plans for a big landscaping project in the Spring.

A few recent photos from about the yard…

Stephanotis vine…

the most divine fragrance….

Coquettes des Blanches

Bourbon c. 1871

Madame Issac Perrier c. 1881

the most fragrant antique Bourbon rose…

Love moody dark grays and brights…

and dyeing my own linens

Madame Ernest Calvat…Madame Issac Perrier…Souvenir de Malmaison…

Old French roses and worn French paperbacks….

18th century French fabric reworked into ecclesiastical stole

on hand dyed Carolyn Quartermaine fabric

In search of the inimitable….

Hand woven, hand stitched…

An ageless love of nature’s little frills worked through silk,

treasured, handed down, reworked, honored…

Old leather bound books and butterflies…

a gouache cartoon…preparation for a woven tapestry…

Antique silk shoes…late 18th or early 19th…

when soles were neither right nor left…

plumped with linen and tied with striped bows…

great site here

My collecting always seems in pursuit of a story…

In the 18th century The Ladies’ Memorandum books

showed a glimpse into pre-blogging woman’s lives….

More here

Though occasional rains signal the closing of the gardening season…

I have parrot tulips and Icewing daffodils and English bluebells to

plant….and a few roses always manage to bloom in December.

I’ll try to pop in from time to time…..

Hope you are all happily busy this Fall…

XOXO

Trish

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