The garden and the beach have a lot in common: they present a new face each day depending on weather and light and all the other exigencies nature throws in their way. They never fail to amaze, amuse and baffle. Which is why we
Continue ReadingBelow is the sunset shot of the day. I seem never to tire of taking them. But the other day a gigant earthmoving machine spent hours pushing the shore into the large berms that keep the ocean from whizzing right through the building along its
Continue ReadingCARPINTERIA CALIF 1 We have arrived in what can only be described as paradise. Carpinteria (Carp as the locals all call it) is a funky little town in between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles smack dab on the Pacific. On our way to the place we?ve
Continue ReadingI have been mucking about travelling again. It seems to suck up everything: time, energy, deadlines and design stuff. I?m so far behind even working in the garden was delayed until this week. I was off having a fantastic time at the Bel Air Hotel
Continue Reading???Here's my version of Monet's sublime garden. ?I've been bopping around once??again with Linda Thorne on a tour of some of the magnificent gardens of France.It turned out to be a marvelous trip with a wonderful group who enjoyed things as much as I did.?
Continue ReadingI have been swamped with work since we got back from Italy but I cannot leave this subject without talking about more about the Tuscan tour. The afterglow lingers on. I can?t remember a better tour: great hotels, lovely people and amazing adventures. It?s not like
Continue ReadingMarjorie and Linda Thorne?caught by Howard Geddes
Continue ReadingDavid Young, is a playwright, bon vivant and all around putter- together of people. When he heard I was going on a tour to Tuscany he pronounced: ?You have to meet my friend Giuseppe. He has the best vineyard in Tuscany; he started an opera
Continue ReadingI do not know what made me think I'd be blogging every day during the Gardens of Tuscany Tour. ?This was a content-dense experience not because we were so overladen with gardens, but we were in such rich territory every day was an adventure. By
Continue ReadingThe BEST BULBS SEASON the beginning of the Tuscan Tour This has been an astounding bulb season. Partly that?s due to the long cool days we?ve been having and, there haven?t been as many squirrels around. These little marauders have left the garden intact. Bulbs are
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