Grey Gardens: Black & White

From the beginning, over 3 decades, this home/garden, below, has drawn me in.
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Layers of green, a walled garden, a sense of redolence, timelessness, summer days of childhood, a secret world of your own.  Perhaps you know it, too, from this lone pic.  Grey Gardens.



via Gardenista, above.



My life in gardens began blessedly before the internet.  I have this book, above, and more like it.  Each, bought-for-a-song at a Goodwill fundraiser held yearly at the local, thriving, mall, staffed with mostly white headed, arthritic, skeletal, sparkling eyed, smiling volunteers.  During those years I looked more forward to this book sale than Christmas, birthday & etc.
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Have you already picked-up on why, 'blessedly'?
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Aside from price & fragrance of old books.  All the pics, in those books, are in black/white/
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Mind, heart & spirit filled in the narrative beyond black/white.  Perhaps the genesis of my career, and that hunger, wanting to know these black/white gardens & create them, instead of abating, increases, with foot still on the gas pedal.



Photo by Peter Vitale/Architectural Digest

From its interior, above, I found this, not looking for Grey Gardens, while sourcing a new project.
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From Goodwill fundraiser decades ago, to today, Grey Gardens is still finding me.
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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara
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Grey Gardens, Gardenista article/pics, here.
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Grey Gardens is in glory again, yet malls across USA are dead, or slowly dying.