If there is one "Green" thing I dream about constantly is to have my own vegetable patch. How cute (and practical) are these Hermes gardening tools? Love!
And Happy Earth Day!!!!

A Toast to Rita!
Neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini will be 100 years old on April 22. The Italian scientist received the Nobel prize for medicine with Stanley Cohen of the United States, in 1986, for discoveries of mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.

Miss Levi recounted how the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s under Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime forced her to quit university and do research in an improvised laboratory in her bedroom at home.

"Above all, don't fear difficult moments," she said. "The best comes from them."

"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance." Ct 2 11-13

'Hoping Everybody had a Great Easter!!!
Image Via Karla's Closet.

I blogged about Linda and Harriett before, but they deserve one more post. This particular wedding invitation is my favorite piece of stationary in the whole world.
www.lindaandharriett.com

I would love a blow up picture like this one, in the opposite wall of my shower. It just makes me smile! Superstar!!

From Dean Kaufman, Via the lovely Roseland Greene.

Love the groom's scarf, her dress, the Blue Grass band, and of course, le Love.
By braedonphotography.com

"Around the Corner" by Andrew Wyeth; My all time favorite American painter.

Update: Andrew Wyeth passed away January 16th May he rest in peace.
A favorite quote: "Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes," Wyeth said in a Life magazine interview in 1965."I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future — the timelessness of the rocks and the hills — all the people who have existed there," he once said. "I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
I think anything like that — which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone — people always feel is sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?"