Please congratulate Cortney Lyons
Winner of the CSN $75 Giveaway!
I would like to thank those at CSN
for this opportunity!
Thank you so much to all who
participated!
Wishing you all a very Delightsome day,
Kathy
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CSN $75 Giveaway ends TODAY!
October 13 through October 27 (noon EST)
Just 4 short hours until the close of this giveaway!
Christmas is just around the corner and this could be a wonderful opportunity to purchase a gift or buy a beautiful Christmas decoration! CSN offers so much with over 200 stores, exceptional service and ease in purchasing! I appreciate CSN once again giving me this opportunity to offer this to you! So looking forward to see who will be todays winner! Could it be YOU?
Christmas is just around the corner and this could be a wonderful opportunity to purchase a gift or buy a beautiful Christmas decoration! CSN offers so much with over 200 stores, exceptional service and ease in purchasing! I appreciate CSN once again giving me this opportunity to offer this to you! So looking forward to see who will be todays winner! Could it be YOU?
Click HERE to enter!
Best Wishes!
Kathy
Victoria Magazine - A Return to Loveliness No. 15
Victoria’s
October Leaves
For a number of years, Victoria Magazine
celebrated novelists in their segment entitled,
“Leaves”
In 1990
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of
“The Yearling” was featured exploring
her Cross Creek home.
“There is an affinity between people and
places”, she wrote.
“Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain,
to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic
secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time”.
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In 1991
John Gardner’s novel
“October Light” was featured reflecting
on the landscape and the memories inspired
by the riches of the season.
Gardner quotes Rudyard Kipling in his book,
“There is the seasons stopped awhile. Autumn
was gone. Winter was not. We had Time dealt
out to us—more clear fresh Time—grace-days
to enjoy”.
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In 1992
“Old Houses”
by Steve Gross and Susan Daley
documents private rooms ‘where time stands still
One such house was the Aiken-Rhett House in
Charleston where Harriet Aiken’s
room remains untouched since
her death in 1892
The authors noted, “Old houses
reveal a beauty and truthfulness
more real and valuable than any replica
could ever be”.
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In 1993
A renewed interest in the Victorian Era
sparked a flurry of books that covered
the lifestyles, the decorations and the
rhythm of the 19th century life.
“Many of us live with fragments of a 19th
century home – grandmother’s bed or her
best china, for instance, that were handed down
with a story. But seeing the Victorian home in full-blown
glory is another thing entirely”.
Books listed included:
‘Victorian Style’ by Judith and Martin Miller
‘Victorian America’ by Wendell Garrett
‘The Secret Life of Victorian Houses’
by Elan and Susan Zingman-Leith
‘Victorian Treasures: An Album and Historical
Guide for Collectors’ by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
‘What Jane Austin Ate and Charles Dickens Knew’
by Daniel Pool
‘The Victorian Village by David Souden
and
‘The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century’
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Harry N. Abrams
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In 1994
Discovering the Age of Innocence
‘Literature was the center of her life—indeed her life itself
was literature’ once written describing author
Edith Wharton.
“I used to say that I had been taught only two things in my
childhood: the modern languages and good manners’, Edith
wrote in her memoirs ‘A Backward Glance’.
“In my father’s library…words and cadences
haunted it like song-birds in a magic wood, and I wanted
to be able to steal away and listen when they called’.
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In 1996
Naturalist Caroline Dormon
Who studied the Louisiana wildlife for more
than 50 years in her solitary cabin named
Briarwood.
“I was born with something—I call it ‘the gift of the wild things’
and because I am simple myself, and have a sympathetic heart, I
can understand animals and simple people to an unusual degree. I see
too, so much that others miss. When I know so many lovely things,
I feel greedy in keeping them all to myself”.
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celebrate Victoria Magazine.
Simply:
1. Create a post celebrating a Victoria issue, column,
picture, writer or how you’ve incorporated
Victoria style into your life.
2. Copy the link specific to your post and add it
to the linky below.
3. Please visit as many others as possible. I understand
being busy, but it encourages others and
Wishing you a very Delightsome day,
Kathy
worth the wait
When we moved to our house several years back, we had to wait on a few things. One of those was waiting to learn what was in this old garden. I have discovered some beautiful and amazing plants.
Some of the plants were put in by more recent owners. At the street there’s a long bed filled with plants that to my husband looked like weeds. They were low in the springtime and kept getting larger throughout the summer without one bloom or indication of what they were. Then in the Fall there were noticeable buds on the several stems. In late September the long wait proved well worth the while.
These long deep purple blooms appeared and swayed in the wind as vehicles passed by.
Later I discovered that these plants were favorites of butterflies – Monarchs and especially yellow ones.
I found that these wonderful plants are called Mexican Bush Sage and the yellow butterflies are Clouded Yellow Butterflies. I wish I could capture their beauty floating above the purple blossoms.
I am still delighting in the discoveries in our old home and garden. We are making progress in our house painting. Here’s a glimpse.
Thank you for stopping by!
I am pleased to offer once more a
$75 Giveaway with CSN.
I am linking this post with
Cielo’s
Cielo’s
The Pinks of Autumn
I am so glad to be rejoining Beverly's Pink Saturday following the last few very busy weeks
preparing for my daughter's wedding. I walked through my garden and found a few
new and lingering pinks this Autumn.
Marguerite daisy - a fun floppy flower
The zinnias are putting on their last show
Autumn Joy Sedum will turn a wonderful rusty color as the
weather turns cooler.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you're having
a very Delightsome Autumnal day!
CSN has given me the opportunity to offer another
Giveaway!
Click here to enter!
Kathy
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