She stood next to me in the dining room, wearing a red top, black striped pants, and white leather shoes smaller than my hand. "Here," she said, resting a colorful set of nesting plastic cups on my knee...
Read moreShowered with Flowers
“Ready?” I asked, carefully holding a steaming travel mug of coffee in one hand and pressing the garage door button with the other. “Yep,” my daughter said, her backpack slung over her shoulders, keys jingling in her hand. It was an ordinary Tuesday morning until we walked out of the garage...
Read moreBeauty and Order, Not Clutter
This is not my desk but look how organized it is! And I love the turquoise typewriter. Photo courtesy of StockSnap.io
As someone who loves beauty, I love an organized room, with everything in its place and nothing extraneous, like the photo above. But my office does not reflect that love. My office is usually a big mess…
Read moreFairhope Arts and Crafts Festival
Quiet streets in Fairhope the day after the 65th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival. For more photos of Fairhope and Mobile Bay, check out the links in the post below.
Have you ever been to an arts festival? Even if you don’t consider yourself an art lover, there are a lot of things to enjoy at a festival like this: good weather, a fun atmosphere, food from local restaurants or food trucks, and live music.
And of course there’s the art...
Read moreMy Trees
I have two children. I've written about my daughter on the blog before, but I haven't told you yet about my first baby, the one I lost through miscarriage. It was through that little one that I learned how beauty, oddly enough, can be a comfort in grief...
Read moreLavender Abbey
Have you ever seen a photograph that filled you with longing? Or stirred something in you? Maybe it made you want to be there, wherever the picture was taken, experiencing whatever was going on in that moment in time...
Read moreLooking for Beauty with Jill Dixon
Photo credit: Jill Dixon
Every week I look for glimpses of beauty—in nature, the arts, or the unexpected—and because I’m intentional, I usually find it. So much of enjoying beauty is about paying attention and simply being aware of it around you. It’s a mindset that can be cultivated.
As I’ve said before, part of the joy of beauty...
Read moreFresh-Faced
What I like most about Facebook is the faces that grace it: photos of friends and family, young and old, silly and serious...
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