TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PART OF THE WORLD. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR HOME TOWN? Last week brought record-breaking 80 ° temperatures. This morning saw the mercury dip to the 30′s. The heat of last week, which prompted early blossoms, then the wind and rain which shook those blossoms down into [...]
Archive for the ‘architecture’ Category
You’re “it” (question #6)
Posted in architecture, tagged A Day at the Races, Lake Michigan, magnolia blossoms, Painted Ladies, The Land of Lincoln, the Marx Brothers, the Prairie State on Monday, March 26, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Riverside
Posted in architecture, Books, Famous and infamous, tagged Des Plaines River, Frederick Law Olmstead, Riverside Illinois, Riverside Public Library, Route 66 Cookbook on Sunday, February 6, 2011 | 19 Comments »
One of my favorite area libraries is in a picturesque suburb a few miles outside of the Chicago city limits. The entire town of Riverside has been on the National Historic Landmark for some forty years and is sometimes referred to as the town inside a forest. Stately trees and winding streets take motorists past [...]
Q and me and the Philadelphia Free Library
Posted in Adventure, architecture, Books, tagged 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff, Q's Legacy, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street on Thursday, October 28, 2010 | 17 Comments »
When we travel, I love to step into the local library. Whether the little library, housed in a house, old and charming and lit for Christmas and viewed from our room at the inn in Vermont, or the Concord Free library in Concord, MA where Alcott and Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne all have alcoves of [...]
Arbor house, part 2
Posted in architecture, Arts and Crafts, Family and friends, Gardening, tagged Arbors on Monday, August 30, 2010 | 16 Comments »
It went up last Autumn as the leaves were starting to change color and drift downward and it reminded me of the skeleton of a ship. One of the young boys next door, a first grader at the time and full of childlike curiosity about what new thing Tom was building, would wander over after [...]
Liberty Gardens
Posted in architecture, Books, Gardening, Nature/animals on Friday, March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Hey, all you gardeners and would-be gardeners, green mamas and papas, composters, cooks, and general lovers of all things natural, I have a really exciting website for you to visit! Liberty Gardens You may recall an October post I wrote, called A Golden Harvest, where I talked about a class I attended where I was [...]
St. James on the Sag
Posted in architecture, Family and friends, Historical on Sunday, March 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I found myself thinking about my life’s paths the other day. While I am comfortable that most of my choices have been the right ones, I have pondered when I steered wrongly and wonder about those paths that lie ahead and those things that are out of my control like whether or not the economy [...]
Graue Mill
Posted in architecture, Historical, Nature/animals on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
There is a change in the air. Something different. Something you almost miss, but when you chance a look, there it is, and it makes you hopeful. Monday was like that. It snowed again and the cutoff awoke to a freshly laundered blanket of heavy snow. The whir of snowblowers filled the morning air and the [...]
