In my house:

In the late afternoon winter sunshine, this plant almost seems to glow!

Amaryllis blooming from forced bulbs. I started them around December 1 and am enjoying their joyful blooms now. They remind me of flamenco dancers in their crimson glory!

I wonder if they were playing bridge?

I’m enjoying reading this fine book. I can’t get enough of French historical biographies.

Being a trained scholar myself, with a fair lot of published writing under my belt, I had to giggle when I came across the paragraph circled below. I’ve never seen an author p[resent themselves so assertively and almost comically in such a book before.

And, by the way, I share her feelings!

I didn’t own and wear this Mary Quant combination, but I loved wearing the knock offs that were available to me! I still have some shoes from that era and they still fit. I rock them from time to time in the summertime!

By coincidence, I was in the shoe department at Nordstrom today and look at the boots on offer! See a resemblance!?

It’s the go-go 60’s all over again!

My good friend in Florence just sent me this bouquet she picked in the Tuscan countryside! Oh my, I’m buried in snow.

The exhibition goes to Venice when it closes in D.C. Hope you get a chance to see it!

I’m the 1960s when I was a tween! My mother made it for me in this exact floral material from this McCalls pattern. We shopped for both at our local JC Penney’s in Pierre, SD, where I grew up.

I also had bright orange strapped shoes. Ever since that time, orange/yellow/pink has been my favorite color combination.

I love and loved the 1960s!!

My friend Rudy in Japan sent these pictures from a recent garden visit in Okayama.

The koi in winter remind me of my winter walks through the Rose Garden in Florence. There are 2 tanks attached to fountains in that beautiful place, both full of koi.