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Archive for March 22nd, 2010

If I ever get to design a house for myself, or just remodel a hallway, I’m totally doing this: Brilliant use of space in this very wide hall gave the owners their own mini-library.  It even has a sliding-ladder contraption, a thing I have coveted for years, as I am teensy. Big bookcases can really [...]

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Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream This is the lovely Viola cornuta, a modern cousin of the deep purple violet Shakespeare knew and used in his play — [...]

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