So as not to be disappointed with my tomato garden for the 3rd year in a row I have decided to grow a Geranium garden in my lower garden area. Mainly because I somehow have 3 very successful large flowering plants down there. So, when in Rome… But I don’t really have a flower budget [...] Read More

Looking for that dream house? Well this is your lucky day! Richard Gere’s Long Island farmhouse is on the market for a “cozy” 8.8 million. A grand total of 7 bedrooms and 10.5 baths. Guest house and Artist’s Studio. Beautiful! Love how overgrown and natural the garden looks The Artist’s Studio – what a dream! [...] Read More

Just a little Christmas imagery courtesey of Terrain at Home – a very cool shop/restaurant/landscape service located outside Philadelphia, Pa. What a great combination of things they have, I wanna go!!! At heart I guess I’m just an East Coast girl trying to have Christmas in Southern California and I need to look at pictures [...] Read More

We are getting our Christmas tree today!!! We get about a 6 foot tall tree and have to rearrange the furniture a little bit to accommodate (but who doesn’t?!!!) Maybe soon we’ll have to get a bigger tree as every year we try and add a new ornament. This year when I was in Asheville [...] Read More

What started out to be a book club meeting ended up just being a cozy Autumn dinner for 7 girls. The addition of a few non-book clubbers whose attendance we simply could not resist put literature aside for the time being – there were Plenty of other topics to discuss!!! The evening started with Pomegranate [...] Read More

John and Vinnie are househunting in Asheville so we had the pleasure of driving all around, from what seemed like one great neighborhood to the next. Honestly, there were about a million houses I absolutely LOVED!!! I felt like I was in Pasadena, Ca only without the prices! Yes, yes these cottages look amazing in [...] Read More

This is the MOST GORGEOUS book! I bought it for my friend Miriam’s birthday and I just ordered one from Amazon for myself. Does this have something to do with me not going to Europe this year? Not really, I always just LOVE this stuff! CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE LIVING HERE? HOW FOOD SHOULD BE!!! Read More