welcome to a visual feast…

Myers Plant & Pottery, Pelham Alabama…bring the kids. There are fairies, tadpoles, koi, fish, old toys, metal animals, antiques, little furniture for fairies…

our garden is on the counter at…

Interiors by Kathy Harris. Instead of a regular card for your Mom, you could buy a fantastic gift in this amazing shop & garden flowers grown in our homegrown Mountain Brook gardens.  Happy us. Happiness, Delivered.

Myers Plant & Pottery

Family owned & operated local business. Myers Plant & Pottery is a feast for the eyes. A wonderful place to bring your children because they have Koi of all sizes & colors. They have three different size tadpoles too.  Mother’s day is coming. I think anyone could find anything for her here. Support your local…

dear tomato lovers…

I can grow my own tomatoes & NOTHING can beat the flavor of homegrown tomatoes.  I live in Alabama. Anyone remember the movie, ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’? Our Publix sells green tomatoes to fry for those who choose to do so & YUM. However, I buy the green tomatoes & put them in a bowl on…

why my heart aches for Vermont

I grew up in Montpelier & Burlington Vermont. I am living my life in Alabama. I married an Alabama man. I love my husband’s family & I am grateful to every single one of them for welcoming a Vermont Yankee, a foodie, a farmer @ heart, Jewish, politically opposite woman into their large Catholic family….

Origami box holds love

My mom makes origami boxes for a few locally (#buylocal!) owned businesses in Birmingham. Our family has a few boxes each because she always included a small gift, like jewelry, inside a box for birthday gifts. I have my boxes displayed on my shelves. Yesterday my son needed an envelope, I wished him luck getting…

DIY sculpture of a horse

A few summers ago, I bought all three of my children these wooden puzzles at Michaels. It was summer vacation & i thought it would be fun for them. It didn’t take more than thirty minutes for them to finish. This horse has been sitting in my daughter’s bedroom ever since. I asked her if…

the place to get married…

One of the most beautiful rooms I’ve ever had the pleasure to feast in. Very Grand with two marble fire places, four grand chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. Although…I felt I was being watched while I ate. Above the chandeliers, were plaster faces that didn’t look very happy that I was beneath them. I guess…

do you see it?

for what it really is? We’ve all heard the saying,”take time to stop and smell the flowers”  but really, who has time for that nonsense? Who has time to see the beauty in this invasive, defiant little wonder? I do. I see a little too much. Funny, that. I am legally blind in my right…