Josie and the neighborhood kids had a lemonade stand this past weekend, set like a scene from Our Town – white umbrella, handmade signs, fresh-squeezed lemonade and sugared yellow cookies. The kids were honoring a sick friend, and wanted the money to go to leukemia research. One look at their signs – 50 cents, HELP [...]
It’s bad enough, the way I peek at their pink bricks and the tall windows. Now I also want to have tea in their garden. I live just a block away but we haven’t met, so I walk past their magnificent house every day with my dog and her pretty red leash – who knows? [...]
I am in a lazy and beautiful place right now. So it’s time for a lazy and beautiful post. When I am not with my house, I will feature…other houses! Who doesn’t love historic Old West Lawrence (Kansas) eye candy? I mean, these people, above, brought a conservatory – yes, you heard me, conservatory – [...]
Posted in Lawrence on Feb 21st, 2008
A walk around my neighborhood in all its frozen grey glory. Dead for 107 years and she’s still in charge. There’s no question that her bejeweled fingers still reach far across the pond… …all the way to the cold, cold Midwest. How did they ever let a Tudor like us in?
Posted in Lawrence on Jan 19th, 2008
We’ve been in the new old house for exactly one month now. What have we learned? Well that’s how it looked last Fall, anyway. Wish it were Fall again. 1. Living near the park is good. While between houses, we were in an apartment down the street for two months. This gave Cleo and I [...]
