Petals from the Past 16034 Co. Rd. 29, Jemison, Alabama 35085 These gardens reminded me of my mother’s perennial beds in Montpelier, Vermont. The gardens she would dig in the dirt, swearing under her breath at the deer that had eaten her bulbs. She called the deer, Bulb Breath… The style of gardens surrounding the…
Tag: Vermont
throw back Thursday or the secret geek x-men fan
this coffee mug was a gift from my high school boyfriend. i started reading X-men comics when I was 13 years old. being snowed in most of the year, in Vermont, i read every book on my mother’s book shelves & even read quite a few of my father’s set of Harvard Classics…my brother was…
Vermont rocks
My parents are flying 1,250 miles from Alabama to Vermont…for its rocks. We live in Alabama. My mother can’t find Vermont’s equal in rocks here in Birmingham’s red clay. The black & white rocks were found by my mom on their many sailing adventures on Lake Champlain. Their sailboat, Gypsy Soul, & the wind, took…
About 2me4art
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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….
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…
teeny tiny kitchen
These images were photographed by Launie Kettler. She lives in Northern Vermont. She shops at local organic grocery stores (Plentiful organic, buy local, grocery stores…i grew up with them in Vermont). Launie has a wonderful, well-lit apartment…the one downfall, to me, is the kitchen. Launie took the lack of space as a personal challenge. Her…
time travel to the 1950’s
When I was a little girl, my mother would take us to Woolworth’s on the Barre-Montpelier road(Vermont). On the very best days ever, she would treat us to lunch. If someone asked me, then, what the very best place to eat was, it was the Woolworth’s lunch counter. Fries fried in good old heart…
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