End of May Apple Blossoms

I know these are so done where you are, but here at 7500 feet they are blooming right now! Every year I look forward to these few days when the trees burst with color. This year I took a few photos...

Architect Barbara Bestor

I wish I could show these bigger, because I love all these photos of architect Barbara Bestor's work. Her use of raw materials and the pops of bold color definitely appeal to me. 1st Dibs has a beautiful article (with big images) about her here. Please go take a look!

Sommarnojen

Remodelista featured Sommarnojen yesterday, a Swedish architectural group designing compact, prefab beach houses. I clicked over to their site and I'm happy to report there is some Heaven there! Sweet, modern little cabins "built by hand using local and sustainable materials"(as reported by Remodelista because I regrettably don't read Swedish). Above is the TVH2 sitting in a bucolic spot, perfect for a Summer weekend...or month.

Yes, I could wake up here...I believe you can also ask these architects to create a custom home, like this. OK, thank you.Could we put it here?With all the beautiful images of Summer homes on Sommarnojen, though, this is my favorite... a sweet little cabin for a crisp Winter weekend. I think it's perfect.

Sotheby's Important 20th Century Design

On June 12th, Sotheby's will hold an Important 20th Century Design auction. I've found the pieces I like. These four could set me back at least $77,000...and this one, a mere $150,000. But it's so cool!
Andre Dubreuil Spine Chairs, Claude Conover Kaknab stoneware, Jean Prouve Antony Chair, Donald Colflesh Circa '70 Tea Service, and Shiro Kuramata Miss Blanche Chair. See details here.

Lovely Long Weekend

Happy Memorial Day! We had a lovely long weekend in Denver. We had no plans, so it was very relaxed. Here are a few pictures of our Sunday hike (while the storm was brewing) and few of downtown (during and after the tornado warning).

We Saved a Baby Robin

We're in Denver this weekend. Doug and Eddie found this little guy perched on a wall near Riverfront Park. I watched him for about 15 minutes, then decided we needed to do something. The wall is in the middle of a field of concrete, with only very small trees nearby. We couldn't figure out where he came from. He was chirping, but no parents answered and no parent dive-bombed me when I (carefully) approached. After a series of five phone calls, each leading us to the next potential savior, we were directed to Wild BIRD Rehabilitation. Amazing. I sent Doug and Eddie back to our place for a box and a soft towel or two. All this took at least 45 minutes. And the robin had certainly been there a while already, judging from the poop! Luckily he was perfectly camouflaged, so he didn't attract much attention -- many people and dogs passed without noticing. I put a dish towel over him (he flapped furiously), put him in the box (he chirped) and we drove him to this terrific place (flapping and chirping). He's not injured, but not old enough to fly (no tail yet). They said, because he was in danger from dogs, people and cars, and because there was no parent nearby, we did the right thing. He'll be good to go as soon as his tail grows a bit. There are two or three other baby robins there, in the same situation, to keep him company. I'm so excited we found Wild BIRD.

Weekend

This lithograph by Helen Frankenthaler makes me think of moonlight over the ocean, a lovely Summer weekend image if you ask me. I hope your weekend is restful... and all you'd like it to be. Yellow Jack, Helen Frankenthaler (at auction in NY, June 4)

Stairways to Heaven

I could live with any of these stairways. I'm not sure I'd live very long, but I love them anyway!images via Purple Area, Richard Powers, Automatism (Domino Deco Files), Remodelista, Marie Claire Maison

If This Weren't So Creepy...

I'd love it. But, I'm sorry, anything that even slightly suggests Hitchcock's The Birds will NEVER be in my home! What do you think? To be even more creeped out, click here and mouse over the image. AAAKK!

images: Trove and as featured in Met Home.

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!