This is my other white bed. I sleep in both.

Was R.L. Stevenson the only person to use the word counterpane? I think of it everytime I get into either of my white beds.

Can we go to Prague and have a coffee in this fabulous tavern?

Voila!

Nancy brought camellias for the tea table.

I painted them yesterday.

Such fun.

Have you heard
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
by Manuel de Falla?

It's so exotic and lush.

Sunday afternoon tea, girls only. We had scones with devon cream and raspberry jam.
When you make your cucumber sandwiches, try using a smear of boursin, instead of butter.

YUM!

It was so cold in January that I moved my dining room furniture into the living room and put the couches in the former dining room near the fireplace. Do you like it? Harriet and Joe did the moving, having been bribed with food.

A rainstorm in the night has turned my favorite

store DUH into a frosty grey and silver

apparation.

Bathroom!

On Halloween night I painted the door in my

To enhance the quality of the day
Is the highest of the arts.

Lunch at Ozone, with too many Guinesses?

This is my new
painting, with
my collection
of glass eggs.

This is my favorite castle in Scotland. Eilean Donan. I want to live here.

Lookee! It's me, today, IN MY HOUSE!

When the winter is icy, the sun on the Bay
looks like diamonds sparkling. Should we call it
DIAMOND WATER?

This is my calamondin tree before the big freezes. I picked the fruit and yesterday, made 9 pints of marmalade. So delicious. It's great on toast, and as a sauce for ham and duck! Want the recipe? Write me!

Hey people! This is the coldest night I remember in my lifetime. I am going to bed in socks, sweats and hat!

Dearest people, Here is one of the Columbus ships. It was freezing cold this day and the wind was ferocious. Poor Columbus, I hope it was nice and warm when he arrived.

Happy New Year!