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Day 157 • Something Beautiful 2022: Hosta blanca
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The villa hosta garden already has an interesting selection of hostas. There is a smaller rich green, a larger variety with white edged, green and white variegated from my parent’s farm, a large yellow green…
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Day 156 • Something Beautiful 2022: The hosta garden
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Much of the north and west side flower gardens that wrap Villa Lucci have been designed, planted, and grown over the last 5 years. The far left side on the edge of the woods, however,…
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Day 155 • Something Beautiful 2022: General Sherman
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. On the heels of my mental visit to the Shabona tree in Elburn, I could not help but think of the redwoods I have visited in California’s Muir Woods and Big Basin. There are still…
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Day 154 • Something Beautiful 2022: Remembering the Shabona
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Just finishing a week of reminiscing with one of my oldest friends who I met in kindergarten. Among the things dredged from the past was the memory of a magnificent elm tree in Johnson’s Mound…
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Day 153 • Something Beautiful 2022: Mock Orange
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Gift plants from the gardens of friends and relatives are something dear to me. This morning, I planted a cluster of mayapples, two French lilacs, and a mock orange. The mock orange is an old-fashioned…
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Day 152 • Something Beautiful 2022: Shining Brow
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. It is a lovely thing to live in a beautiful place. And, lovelier yet to be able to share it. One of my oldest friends going back to kindergarten, visited with her partner this week.…
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Day 151 • Something Beautiful 2022: Lavender and Roses
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Early this morning, I talked with a couple from Liverpool who are colleagues that became friends. We hadn’t seen each other in quite a while, so catching up was the first order of business. The…
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Day 150 • Something Beautiful 2022: Happy Go Lucky
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Friday, the Stickworks project I worked on at Horseshoe Bay Farms in Egg Harbor tucked it’s last branch and opened for public viewing. I was not there for the last get together but a new…
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Day 149 • Something Beautiful 2022: The Ennis House
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. On the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings with which I’m unfamiliar, my sister from Los Gatos mentioned the Ennis House in LA during our excursion to American Players Theatre. Mayan inspired, it really is…
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Day 148 • Something Beautiful 2022: Trinity Chapel
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. One image of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Spring Green was not enough. I went searching for images of the Wright family chapel on the property. Like the other buildings, it is quaint, distinct and I have…