Lecturing in Albany, New York last week I had the option of hotel or private home. Please. Observing how others live & garden inform my Muse (more about Muse in another post).
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All of a Tuesday NAUGHTY GIRL hosted me about Albany: Shaker gardens (more in another post), her friends homes & gardens, restaurants, Master Gardener public gardens, historical sites, and evading police twice on downtown bridges during the filming of Angelina Jolie's newest movie. NAUGHTY GIRL was good, indeed, for my Muse.
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APPLE SAUCE QUEEN, below, lives in this circa 1790 home. My 1st time inside a real 5-4&door.
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APPLE SAUCE QUEEN had 4
minutes notice of our arrival. She & her husband were in the backyard gardening &
caretaking a grandson. Spring, calm, beauty, love, laughter emanated from this trio as we pulled into their drive.
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Have you designed shadows, above, into your landscape? Wish you could have walked upon this venerable stone path to APPLE SAUCE
QUEEN's front door with me.
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Immediately at the front door, above, original stairs, rail, floor, foyer.
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APPLE SAUCE QUEEN & her husband stripped the flooring of layers of paint, above.
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Each side of the foyer, above, with these doors. Were they to help
caretake children, control pets?
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The dining room, above & below, was a later addition. In the china cabinet, above, APPLE SAUCE QUEEN has a jar full of pottery, china, pipes, marbles & other misc. things found while digging in the garden. Some of the china is from China. Slow-witted me did not think to get a picture for you. Oops.
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APPLE SAUCE QUEEN not only makes applesauce from her own apples but jams from her own blackberries, raspberries, strawberries & blueberries. Her grown children live close and she's able to
caretake her grandchildren. Her love & joy with life is a delightful cloud to be enveloped within.
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Why is this a fabulous landscape picture, above? Trust me, it is. APPLE SAUCE QUEEN was in the process of removing iris and planting
vinca minor when NAUGHTY GIRL & I arrived.
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Many talk about low-maintenance few follow thru.
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Thank you NAUGHTY GIRL for this tiny slice of Tuesday.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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