Thunder Storm

There is a storm coming through. I love thunder storms...

and we need the rain. I hope you are well! I am. And I have a new modem (thank you Mark and Julia). I hope my posts, and my visits to my favorite blogs, will be more frequent now!

Hello...

Hello? Is anyone there?!??! I feel so out of touch! But my new modem is here, ready for set up. That should be fun. Turns out a 10-year-old modem can be fickle. I think this painting pretty much sums up how I feel. Joseph Czapski

Happy Mother's Day

I hope you have a lovely day! You deserve it. I'm missing this beautiful person today. Now that I have a little one of my own, I appreciate (and am awed by) everything she did for me and my four sisters more than she will ever know. Love you, Mom...My mother, 1990 on St. Kitts.

Together

I like these two together...

The first is a photograph by the extremely talented Edina van der Wyck from her travel portfolio, and the second is a watercolor by Emil Nolde, Marsh Landscape Near Utenwarf (Green and Blue) (being auctioned at Doyle on May 19th).

And have a beautiful weekend. Happy Mother's Day to you!

Art in Australia

I am drawn to these paintings, which are among the artworks being auctioned this weekend at Davidson in Sydney, Australia. John Coburn, Ray Crooke, Ruth Julius, Ric Elliot

I Don't Want To Know

I heard this on the radio a minute ago and it made me happy.

Enjoy!

Pennies For Peace

My little guy made me smile yesterday evening. He came home from his beautiful Montessori school, where they've been reading Listen to the Wind and polishing pennies, and asked me how to spell Greg. Then he asked me how to spell Mortenson. The result was this...

I really hope you can read it. My little 4 and 1/4-year-old wants to send this to Greg Mortenson, the man behind the Central Asia Institute and its effort to construct community based schools for underserved youth (primarily girls) in Pakistan and Afghanistan. As the Central Asia Institute says, "the best hope for a peaceful and prosperous world lies in the education of all the world’s children." To educate myself, I've recently read Three Cups of Tea, the story of his efforts and successes. Eddie's Montessori is participating in the Pennies for Peace program, through which school children in the U.S. learn about making a positive impact on a global scale and contribute to the Central Asia Institute's cause.

Eddie would like me to send his note to Dr. Greg, so I will... along with a contribution.

Good Weekend

We spent a lovely, if chilly and rainy, weekend in Denver. The zoo was pleasantly quiet because of the weather. We thought these goslings were pretty cute.

(I bought a new computer on the way home, and I am happy to report it's now up and working fine.)

Still not right!

I hope you're having a great weekend! My computer is still sick... but I'll be back soon!

Lilacs

These lilac blossoms inspired me today...They led me to find other examples of their uplifting (and soothing) color. I feel good when I look at these images below, too...
photos 1. Holly Hecht on flickr 2. Tine K Home 3. Ken Hayden via coco+kelley 4. Jeffers Design Group 5. Domino via coco+kelley 6. The Paris Apartment 7. via Purple Area 8. Mads Mogensen via Desire to Inspire.

Internet Issues

I'm having some connection issues, which are making it difficult to post! Hopefully it's an easy fix and I'll be back to full strength soon!

Moving to Sweden?

Hmmm... these lovely apartments in Goteborg and Stockholm look good to me! I've been browsing this site, dreaming about a Scandinavian pied-a-terre. And if I ever sell my home, I hope my broker works this hard for me!
Alvhem found via Purple Area via Desire to Inspire (thank you!)

Nice Ride Today

I rode my bike today. I love riding my bike...

Needing an Escape

We had snow this weekend. AAAAAAAAAAKKKK! Since I'm not actually going to the beach anytime soon, I dreamt with one of my favorite coffee table books. I'd say yes to the Moroccan coast...

or this Mexican hideaway, thank you!

images from Great Escapes, with photos by Simon Upton.

2009 Snowball Rally

This is great fun. I love the cars we're chasing! Good design is everywhere...

Thank you husband for the link!

And More Happiness...

Looking at these makes me happy this weekend! They will be auctioned this Monday at Doyle in New York. What fun it would be to see them in person...1. Andy Warhol 2. Dernieres oeuvres de Matisse, 1950-1954 3. Alexander Calder 4. Joan Miro 5. Joan Miro 6. Joan Miro (with others in a set of prints)

Happy Weekend

I wish you a beautiful weekend, and I hope your week was perfect. I was concentrating on some other things for the past couple of days... I'm so sorry for not being here! I'll leave you with some all-over-the-map, but feel-good (at least for me) art being auctioned this weekend in Warsaw and...
in London...
Artists: 1. Jerzy Nowosielski 2. Jan Opalinski 3. Tadeusz Kantor 4. James Hull 5. David Bomberg 6. Joan Miro