More fragrances abroad in this sweet fleeting Maytime, and effortless flights of nostalgia…the alchemy of privet hedge and honeysuckle transport me again to my first stay on Jekyll Island. Neither before nor since has a place other than my own home been of such vital significance to me, but fifteen visits later my unswerving devotion […]
It bears mentioning that I went back to my ballet class yesterday—after two years!! I had to stop my ears against the voice in my head that said I’d never dance again and just go. I knew that it was now or never. The back injury that forced me to drop out in the first […]
Well, I don’t know if the chickens appreciate the beautiful, fragrant bower of dog roses cascading over their pen, but I certainly do. It greets me each morning as I’m walking across the lawn and I just stop and think of all the happy hours that scent recalls for me…one of […]
My name is Lanier, and I am a lover of Jesus Christ, the wife of Philip, and a hopeless romantic. For the past six years I have been happily married to my handsome software engineer/gentleman farmer and living in an 1850’s farmhouse in the beautiful state of Georgia where I am employed as a full-time […]
Katherine Downs was the kind of businesswoman who would trade her books for vegetables out of the back of someone’s truck, but would turn up her nose at the decorators that wanted her lovely old leather bound volumes to fill a dead space on a client’s shelf. Her little bookshop was an endearing hodgepodge of […]
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; […]
Finally, bretheren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things…
Philippians 4:8
These I have loved: White plates and cups, clean-gleaming, Ringed with […]