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Day 167 • Something Beautiful 2022: The Moon Garden
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Along time ago, a wonderful person came into my life for a brief period after a mutual friend passed away. She gave me an iron figurine, a reproduction of an ancient horse and told me…
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Day 166 • Something Beautiful 2022: Something finished, something light
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Tuesday, I finished my first stained glass project. A saga in its own right. A work I had trouble envisioning as a finished piece. The process is long and laborious. There is a reason stained…
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Day 165 • Something Beautiful 2022: Aurora in winter
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Son, Thomas, and his wife, Cassie, travelled to Iceland, Denmark, and Finland last December. Seeing the elusive borealis was on their list but the weather gods did not play. Clouds led to disappointment on this…
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Day 164 • Something Beautiful 2022: Aurora
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Dear friend, Helen, sent me an email today telling me the heat lightening post brought memories of nights watching the Aurora Borealis from Buck Lake in Minnesota. I have yet to see that wonder. Images…
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Day 163 • Something Beautiful 2022: The Villa Lucci Light Show
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. As fourths go, the forecast was less than idyllic. Grey and brutally muggy. Instead of checkered cloths and picnic tables, the minions served up barbecued chicken and slaw was served in the villa dining room.…
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Day 162 • Something Beautiful 2022: Garden blue-part 3
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Three gardens ago, I began growing false indigo or baptista. In Cincinnati, I mistakenly picked up yellow baptista and was initially disappointed when the blooms opened without the incredible deep periwinkle blossoms. But the plant,…
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Day 161 • Something Beautiful 2022: Garden blue-part 2
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. I look forward to the day when my catmint lines a path near my garden like the one below. For the moment, I am content with the single, prolific, periwinkle blue stalks at the back…
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Day 160 • Something Beautiful 2022: Something blue
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. If you are following this initiative with any regularity, you will have noticed that I have become exceedingly irregular in posting. Not for lack of interest but for the increasing demands of a late garden…
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Day 159 • Something Beautiful 2022: The Maui Banyan
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Those who have followed my posts for a few know that spectacular trees make me weak in the knees. A group I follow, posted this stunning photo the other day. The banyan tree in Lahaina,…
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Day 158 • Something Beautiful 2022: Tiny and perfect
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Thirty-three years ago yesterday, this tiny, perfect creature came into my world. Of course, every mother sees only the sweet, fragile thing she and her partner made unless someone else sees it, too. Gratefully, a…