Nancy Reagan, Ladybird Johnson, then-current FLOTUS Hillary Clinton, Roslyn Carter, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., for the opening of the First Ladies’ garden.
May 11, 1994
Photo by Barbara Kinney/The William J. Clinton Presidential Library.
A long ago, secret admirer used to gift me bouquets of cleaned ramps in springtime.
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#allium #ramps #spring #seductionbyonion (at At Home in Napa)
The waning days of winter greens.
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#garden #makingroomfortomatoes #plantingforpollinators (at At Home in Napa)
Still Life, 1946
By Luigi Rist, American (1888-1959)
Woodcut in colors
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#art #americanart #woodcut #rago
A quiet spot.
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#california #sonomacounty #springhassprung (at Healdsburg, California)
Afternoon affogato.
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#icecream #handmade #sugarandcaffeine (at Noble Folk Ice Cream and Pie Bar)
Waterfront Buildings
By Maurice Braun, American (1877-1941)
Oil on canvas
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#art #painting #americanart #bonhams
I smell orange 🍊 blossom honey!
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#california #bee #beekeeping #backyardbeekeeping #honey (at At Home in Napa)
After the rains.
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#california #napavalley #aprilshowers (at Napa, California)
The temple. Still knockin’ it outta the park, after all these years…
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#california #food #berkeley #showingthemhowitsdone (at Chez Panisse)
Replenishing the pantry.
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#california #berkeley #spice #buyinginbulk (at Lhasa Karnak Herb Co.)
Zantedeschia aethiopica (known as calla lily and arum lily) is a species in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.
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#garden #flowers #callalily #springincalifornia (at At Home in Napa)
The day I moved to NYC to start my adult life (can it actually be 30 years ago??), I got a subscription to #newyorkmagazine and I’ve made sure it’s shown up in my mailbox ever since; culturally relevant, ponderously informative with a stable of great writers. I may have found my humanity and heart when I moved to Northern California, but my head and teeth were definitely, distinctly cut in New York.
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#eastcoast #newyork #byedonald
The door to the porch
left ajar by the cat
invites intoxication
to flood the kitchen
stumbling
head spinning
indecent, immodest
thick of tongue
from too much
spring.
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A North African nosegay
wafts through a California garden
beguiling as a flowing hijab;
night blooming jasmine
Meyer lemon and Persian lilac
sweet and kaffir lime
spent daffodil, shivering plum
and
thousands of eye-watering
orange blossoms
popping from branches
still hung with winter fruit
now humming
vibrating
teeming
with bees.
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#california #garden #bee #spring
(at At Home in Napa)
The flat white of morning.
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#california #napa #carneros (at Napa, California)
Torching the nooks and crannies of the beehives to rid them of last year’s pestilence in preparation for the new 🐝 inhabitants.
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#bee #beekeeping #backyardbeekeeping #inbeeswetrust (at At Home in Napa)
It was the kind of cold that makes snot run, fingertips burn purple, thick ugly hats
fashionable. Even this late in winter, with wet, mushroomy soil scenting the air, the melody of water rushing downhill to join full rapid rivers, and cherry trees pregnant and giddy, springtime seemed months away.
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The oven’s sunset glow, now only half as fiery as Dante’s recipe for roasting flesh, illuminated her silhouette, a silver helmet of old lady hair. Wiping flour from hands gnarled as ancient Vernaccia vines, she bustled to the glass door set with heavy iron knobs and hinges, a wide smile warm, beckoning, uncharacteristic for a Roman of a certain age.
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In Ferrari-fast Italian, who knows which dialect, her arms flail towards a large basket of drying biscotti the color of tan nylons, their crispy edges bulging with almonds; tradizionale naturalmente. My dumb smile, nodding head and childish slaughtering of even the most rudimentary phrases earned me two cookies and a wave out the door.
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But, really, I just wanted to check out her oven.
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#italy #frascati #paticceria #bakery #fornolegna
(at Frascati, Italy)
Morning dew on spring buds.
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#california #spring #napavalley #garden
(at At Home in Napa)
Tool obsessed.
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#functionalart #thamesandhudson #book #tools (at At Home in Napa)
Hand-painted wood cutout of figures
1988
by David Gerstein, Israeli (b. 1944)
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#art #woodworking