Following an Evening Walk

This is a beautiful place called Luna Blue. It is a hotel with beautiful gardens. And a swimming pool. In the evening, at this little local bar, music is played. It is a very sweet and quiet setting. I love the swings surrounding the wooden bar. I wonder whether I could incorporate them at The […]

Preparing Pasta #2

What a delight it has been watching this young chef making pasta each night. It was ravioli this time–cheese and spinach And it was so helpful to watch him roll out the dough and transform it into a new pasta. This one is a bit blurry because he was moving his fingers so quickly, but […]

Walking and Seeing

Shabby Chic–Weathered White

You know when you find those things that make your heart expand and your breaths breathe quicker…. I have loved shabby chic my whole life…. I’ve been collecting those old weathered windows since I was 19… There is this sense of beauty and history, not crumbling away, but cracking and weathering through time. Weathering, such […]

Word of the Day

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge Thomas Carlyle Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet Plato A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech When words become superfluous. Ingrid […]

Random Things I Saw Along The Way

My first upright bicycle came from Mexico.  Every year when Rod and I would come, we would each buy a bicycle and then give them away at the end of our stay.  One year I was so in love with my blue and silver upright bicycle with its basket that I brought it home and […]