Simply inscribed (along the bottom edge): "Stewie / me." Picking wildflowers just seemed like a nice way to end a hectic week.
Wherever I go ~ I can't resist a market! This one in Ann Arbor (after lunch at Zingerman's of course!). The light there was insanely gorgeous.
A few details from the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee (more here). Built 1890-1892 for the beer baron Frederick Pabst, the Flemish Renaissance Revival mansion is festooned with with stone garlands of hops. It is one of the city's last remaining grand houses, a classic example of Gilded Age architecture. And each Saturday in August, one's tour is concluded with a tasting of Milwaukee's best beers ~ now, how can you pass up an opportunity like that!?
9 days, 1 great lake, 4 historic houses, 5 museums, 2 farmers' markets, 1 fabulous afternoon spent in the company of some Queen Annes, several Gothics, and a pair of Greeks. Add to that some good food, good wine, a few special people, and it all makes for a pretty fabulous week. I am slowly getting caught up, but obviously...there is lots and lots to share!
Inscribed: "Bixby Park - / Long Beach, Cal. - 1914." Dining al fresco. I think this is such a beautiful image, with the trees and mottled sun light. I would have like to have joined them.
Thumbing through an old stack of postcards I found this image of Marie Adrien Persac’s painting of Shadows-on-the-Teche, 1861. The French-born Presac (1823–1873) is not particularly well known outside of Louisiana, but his legacy is significant. He was a true renaissance man, a civil engineer who worked as an architect, cartographer, photographer and artist. Persac’s renderings of Louisiana plantation scenes are invaluable records of mid-nineteenth-century life along the Mississippi and the bayous. Although I was familiar with the plantation scenes, I was delighted to discover that while employed by the New Orleans Notarial Archives he produced an amazing series of architectural drawings and paintings of the city. He also created a group of charming watercolors for sale posters of properties intended for public auction (see below, and here).
(top image: Shadows-on-the-Teche (Front View), 1861, collection of Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana, National Trust for Historic Preservation; and below: Eugène Surgi and Marie Adrien Persec, sale plan, 25 February 1860, New Orleans Notarial Archives)
I have been obsessed with food ever since I saw Julie & Julia this weekend. Seriously, no one does onions like Meryl Streep. No one. She was extraordinary.
Found recently on eBay. Uninscribed, undated. I'll let you write your own story on this one...because you know it has to be a good one.
I should have had this image last week when I posted the apple-blackberry crisp recipe, no? Ah, well, apples only just made an appearance at the market on sunday.
...summer is just an embarrasment of riches. Okay, I need to get cooking. Hope you all had a good weekend.
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