LOLA chose the paint for her bricks and created her own interiors. How to get you the fragrance of this magnolia?
Vanishing Threshold, above, dictates views into a window are pretty in both directions. No backsides of pictures, clocks, or TV.
Do you like still life's too?
About here, above, I thought to myself, This is probably rude leaving the party to wander & take pics without asking. Ha, did I stop?
I knew LOLA wouldn't have paper plates. Or paper napkins.
Gazpacho in the pitcher, Mario Bitalli asparagus (sauteed with garlic/parsley/citrus), fruit salad, cucumber salad, field pea salad.... Wine & beer & tea were in the copper farmhouse sink cradled in ice.
Set into a slight hill the house is crowned with a hardwood canopy of oaks. Captured light, above.
Vanishing Threshold, house & garden, each a seduction of comfort.
LOLA added French doors.
The back garden has 3 terraces.
LOLA really nailed her pot clusters, above. She overdosed, with 3!
Standing at the French doors looking into the garden. A designer planned the garden; contractors put in the stone. LOLA and darling TOM are doing the plantings & maintenance. Exactly the hand-heart-eye a paid maintenance crew cannot provide. The word for it? Charm.
What is a house & garden without a Queen? CHESSIE was in control. She also sweetly gave away a personal tidbit. She's a Daddy's Girl.
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LOLA & TOM live from the center of their home to the property line. And that darlings is Vanishing Threshold.
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Stop here if you don't partake of good gossip.
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LOLA & TOM were married last year in Italy. LOLA invited her 2 best friends. And that is how darling TOM honeymooned with 3 women at a villa in Italy.
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You bet I'll keep up with this interesting crew.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara