Several are in my garden but Susanne had overdosed a theme.
Tuesday Morning was on the way home after making large scale copies for a client plan at Kinko's. Hadn't been inside for years.
They had a shelf of cloche's. Most, not all, were on sale.
I bought all on sale, 7. Most are etched, others plain and varied amongst 3 sizes.
Ha, not in my subdivision. Arriving to this, above, at Sunday's bar-b-q, you know I was lost in fantasy; adding height to the meadow & Adirondack chairs. Loving, adoring, reveling in Nature's garden. 
I met the owner of the paddock, at least it's a paddock in my fantasy, thru the pages of his free local magazine, Up Close & Personal in Tucker. 
County restrictions & certificate of occupancy played a role in the initial landscape. A dastardly lawn HAD to go in. Soon much of the lawn will be flowering shrubs, groundcovers, understory blooming trees, paths, rosemary, lavender & more wildflowers. 
SPO's first wildflower meadow, above.
Lawn now but just you wait, hydrangeas, azaleas, viburnum, mondo, jasmine, tea olive, cryptomeria, gardenia, camellia, forsythia, & etc...... 
SPO sourced most of the materials for the house. The working shutters are on all sides of the house. The living room, above, with 2 pair French doors leading to the back porch and, below, a door from the master bedroom to the back porch.
Well chosen downspout, below, it's round. The stones are faux. On site, from 3', you can't tell they are faux.
The kitchen, family room, master bedroom, upstairs office, & porch, below, overlook an amphitheater with a mature woodland backdrop. You would not believe the birdsong. 
Natural terracing, below, forms the amphitheatre. Faux stone tops the retaining walls.
Textured blocks, below, even cheaper than the faux stone, comprise the retaining walls. Not seen, why spend more?
A delight in the carriage house, the Cadillac. SPO & CAPE COD drive for pancakes each Saturday in the Caddy. Yes, I've asked them to stop by & pick me up some Saturday.
SPO adores cooking and found her kitchen online at Yestertec Kitchen Works. Simple, compact, functional and charming. 
The oven, below, is in the cabinet under the stove.
And the armoir, below, is not a pantry.
It's a cooking center, below. Delightful, just close the doors and it's a clean look.
In the library, below. Moving into this house they decided to forgo cable. And are loving the change in their lives. 
Between kitchen and living room, below, the desk. The house is one room deep in these rooms and full of natural light. And views, views, views. 
Keeping it small, below, SPO knew to go high with the living room ceiling.
SPO & I dreamed, before she moved in, about having a tea party on the back porch, below. Alas, dear ones, we were weak. Do you know how forsakenly hot/humid it was? 
Her home, circa 70's, is getting a new kitchen. French doors went in recently, new deck & screened porch too.
Enjoying paper in the guest bathroom, below. A weird enjoyment, but there it is.
Soon, a fig bush will engulf the pump house from behind, below. Her antique bench goes in front and hollyhocks will bloom on each side. A potager will replace the lawn.
The pool will get a facelift.
GRAPHIC GIRL loves Stone Carpets, below. She saved the picture from Early Spring 2002 Garden Shed magazine. Don't you love her level of determined passion?
Below, is where her Stone Carpet will go. A custom lattice wall will hide the stairs/raised beds.
GRAPHIC GIRL saved this Veranda magazine cover shot since 2003.
Please, someone, create fabulous software for laptop & digital camera. So far, the software isn't worth it. My fantasy is designing en plein air with laptop on the folding table.
En plein air with GRAPHIC GIRL's inspirations: pictures, mission statement, plant list.
Kitchen counters form an 'L' blocking easy access to the backdoor & garden. Disliked, strongly, for years it's now unbearable. Changing the kitchen will change my life. Bold? No. Energy must flow easily, vanishing threshold.
Shooting hydrangeas and seeing the table legs from a new angle, below. The legs have a slight curve from top to bottom, reeking of the 1950's. Aside from being a diminutive rectangular shape, perfection, I had to have those legs.
And the glass top with more hydrangea blossoms underneath. A hydrangea carpet!!!
And the blue/white ginger jar? It's a traditional Chinese wedding gift. The writing says, 'Double Happiness'. Of course I didn't know that when I bought it at the thrift store for $3.
Until yesterday I wasn't aware the world offered lace shoes. Before the year is out I will picnic with girlfriends, all wearing lace shoes, upon soft meadow & moss. 
The languor, and joys, of summers in Milledgeville, GA circa 60's are in my DNA. Those summers are in my landscape now. 
Did you know stone & gravel mirror back the stars & moon? You can read a book of poetry without electric or candle light upon a stone terrace past midnight in your garden. 
Using the toughest pass along & native plants brings birds, butterflies & honeybees. Creating gardens surviving on rainwater. And no fertilizer.
Be who you are. Oddly, you'll have to be brave to be who you are, even for your garden.
Bill Blass said, A woman with a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear doesn't know herself very well.
Soon my closet will have a tutu & lace shoes.
My late friend/mentor/client/artist/rancher Mary Kistner instilled her mantra well, It's what we do with what we have.
Junk, glorious garden junk. Can you believe I do get rid of things...occasionally? 
Unexpectedly, delightfully, the garden bells clap in the wind. Do you think this looks like a pile of junk on the wall? That's fine. Each piece of junk has a backstory making me smile. One piece involves a police chopper, ooh-la-la. Another was found in England at Great Dixter. 
If Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Nigella Lawson, Lee Baily, Mario Bitali, Ina Garten, Gourmet, Cook's Illustrated.....are on a shelf, or even better, on the counter, I know a lot about what you're wanting for your landscape. 
TRACTOR CHICK chose her home for its lot. For the landscape. The backyard is incredible.
A few challenges in the front yard. Driveways & garages drawing attention away from the focal point of the front door.
Bahama shutter pic, above, from The Window Shutter Site, other pics taken last week.
