Around here .... lately

Dinner parties .....

... with homemade lanterns to welcome guests ....

Little visitors ... 

     

... curious and cute....

Beautifully wrapped packages arriving by post ....

.... containing pretty birdy gifts.....

 

Loveliness observed around the home.....

... inspired by a new book ....

...containing images such as this....

.... and this .... (sigh) ...

In turn inspiring a still life of my own....

.... as well as the constant desire ....

...... to fill the home with blooms.

What's happening with you lately?

Have you noticed how many great bloggy chicks are preggers??

Or have just had Bubs?

(something in the ethernet?)

Have you noticed how many great images there are to see 

(and smile at) in blog land? 

Have you been entertaining guests lately? Do you love candles 

as much a I do?

Hello to my new followers - Yay and Whoop Whoop!

I've never been one to "try" and get more followers - but it does feel ever so nice!

(Is it even important? Yes says ego..... No says heart)

Have you read a great poem lately?

I have ....

Y heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in a halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these,

Because my love is come to me.

 

Raise me a daïs of silk and down;

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life

Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti