. . . Cabin & Cottage

Monday, July 26, 2010

FUN FINDS

Thanks for stopping by! Ciao! for now!

Jacqueline

Linking with Coastal Charm
and A few of My Favorite Things

Sunday, July 25, 2010

I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature
in repose, distinct.

The butterfly glow
in the narrow flute
from which the morning glory
opens blue and cool on a hot morning.

Denise Levertov, Pleasures

My little morning glory vine.

Blue for your Monday.

Thanks for stopping by! Ciao! for now!

Jacqueline

Linked to Smiling Sally, Blue Monday

Soft Center

Someone, somewhere, on some excellent blog, recently explained about the dog days of summer.

I was happy to have my curiosity satisfied in learning that instead of a lazy dog searching for shade, dog days refers to constellations, and the position of the earth in relation to the sun at this time of year.

But I'VE hit the position of the lazy center where I burrow in, unmotivated to do much of anything.

I really am a BURROWER. I always say you can't have too many bed pillows , for instance, but I often do have too many, and have piles thrown around the floor by morning.

I prefer the cushy inside of dark rooms on my days off rather than the hot and harsh afternoon sun.

Gear up time for many of us is just around the corner. If we're going to get to camp, the lake, vacation, etc., it has to be now. Soon it's time to buy school clothes.

We're no longer waiting for it to get warm enough, for roses to bloom, for the sunflowers to gain their height, for the full flower of anything! This is what full flower feels like.

Finally finished for a while. Cut a few blooms. Pluck a few veggies from the garden. Relax after the visitors have cleared out. Enjoying the marshmallow center. Dog or no dog.

Here's wishing you your own soft center somewhere! Ciao! for now! Thanks for stopping by my lazy corner of the world!

Jacqueline

Linking with Mellow Yellow Monday!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Summer's Day

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

Leaving the waterside , where rushes stood thick and tall in a stream that was becoming sluggish and slow, he wandered countrywards, crossed a field or two of pasturage already looking dusty and parched, and thrust into the great sea of wheat, yellow, wavy, and murmurous, full of quiet motion and small whisperings. Here he often loved to wander, through the forest of stiff strong stalks that carried their own golden sky away over his head-- a sky that was always dancing, shimmering, softly talking; or swaying strongly to the passing wind and recovering itself with a toss and a merry laugh.

Wayfarers All, Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham

Wishing you a lovely summer Sunday!
Thanks for stopping by! Ciao! for now!

Jacqueline

Linked with The Tablescaper for Summer Sundays

Friday, July 23, 2010

PINK Saturday Roses

Meet my mix and match teacup parade! My mom-in-law would call it a mishmash. And NOT in a good way! Ha! But she's old school, very refined, a darling, and she's almost ninety so she's earned her say! By definition, by the way, a mishmash is "a confused mess". (Wait she WAS referring to the CHINA wasn't she?)

My sister-in-law friend Marsha gave me this cup and saucer. She took one look and knew I would love it. She probably didn't know just how crazy for it I would be! The moss rose is so subtle, and the brown transfer detail makes me shiver! WHoooooo!

Bavarian and French go together like rivalrous but loving cousins.

And these are actually two different Limoges patterns. I am an equal opportunity china collector.

So the star here is the English rosebud saucer. Don't we all need a little saucy support now and then? But I also like keeping company with the let-your-hair-down type even in a teacup! (My hair is almost always down!)

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."
(Gertrude Stein said that. . . have you SEEN Gertrude Stein?)

I hope you have the pinkest of Saturdays!
Thanks for stopping by my little mishmash corner of the world!
Ciao! for now!

Jacqueline