An Agatha Christie Weekend

It's a 'Miss Marple', 'Hercule Poirot' kind of weekend. I love to sit down with any Agatha Christie series that PBS puts out. You can find them at the local library. So many sneezes and sniffles in the past few weeks had Savannah home an entire week from college with flu. She is better now and happy to be back with college life. Then milder versions have run its course through the rest of the house.

With all that, I have not felt like blogging much and for that I apologize. We have had so much snow here lately that when there is a peak of sun anywhere, everyone, including me, wants to be out in it. In our business, January and February are our busiest time of the year, for which we are very grateful, but it makes a long Winter. Spring is much anticipated!

2011 Book Group List

  
  February- American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld              
   March-  Still Alice by Lisa Genova                            
   April- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks            
   May- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese          
   June-Wednesdy Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton            
   July-The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow  
  August- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by James Ford       
   September-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson    
   October-Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors                  
   November-Loving Frank by Nancy Horan                      
                                          
                                       

Happy New Year from Grayton Beach Florida

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea,
& music in its roar:
I love not man less,
But nature more.


               -Lord Byron

The Joy

Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to make you glad.

--John Greenleaf Whittier

Let Christmas Begin

A Blackberry Farm Anniversary

Looking out on the front porch of our cottage

DH kept a fire going the whole visit...so cozy.

Our gorgeous bedroom...and that is fabric on the walls, not wallpaper.

Our Dinner menu for a souvenir

A gorgeous natural wreath in the Main house

Blueberries in Cream for the chefs Amuse-bouche at breakfast.

DH and I ordered a fruit to share and this is what the chef sent out...gorgeous and delicious!!

Snow and a beautiful view!
A perfect stay for our 25th anniversary. Thank you Blackberry Farm!

My Passion for Design

Wow! What a gorgeous book! If I could sum Barbra up with one word, it would be "detail." She is the queen of details. This book is the journey of the years Barbra spends building her dream home. And what a beautiful home it is! To see a photograph of a room was just the beginning. Ms. Streisand would then point out all the tiny details and love that went into every room. I was spellbound! This would make a fabulous Christmas gift for someone who loves beautiful things.