Not about gardening!! Can you believe it?!

Second post of the day.

I have art! Earlier this year when two Americans visited. For each it was their first visit to England & Europe. They each gave me a work of art made by them. I took them to be framed and picked them up yesterday. As soon as I arrived home I unwrapped them and hung them.

One is a painting by Bri from Louisiana. It's in my front room facing a huge mirror on the mantle piece so it really I have two paintings. I love the koi, it reminds me of an old family friend, a former professor of my parents' who is now 93, an expert orchid grower with a koi pond in his back yard. Oh, he's also a world re-known historian too, but his love is his orchids. So for me, this is a little piece of North Carolina in my little London flat.


One is a photograph by C.H. Paquette. This photograph. I have the first in the link, "Atlantic City, skyline". C.H. has a special touch with Chocolate Polaroid. It's an amazing film and his work with it is nothing short of magical to me. Now, every morning when I wake up, this the view I have just outside my bedroom door, in the hall, protected from direct sunlight.


Beauty is all around me. I am lucky.