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Every year, around this time, I have a scent memory that comes to me unbidden. It's an odd memory in that it's not from anything extreme. You always read about someone having negative experiences and certain smells trigger them, but this is a memory of something fairly mundane that comes to me every single year… Continue reading The Scent of a Primrose
The days are getting longer, the breeze is feeling warmer and my happiness levels are returning. I had a hard winter - the cold and the ice paired with a need to eat my way through January and February. And probably December if I'm being honest with myself. I got out every single day with… Continue reading Good Riddance February
We have a really sweet flock of black capped chickadees (called a Banditry of Chickadees) on our birdfeeders and trees the past few weeks after having very few bird visitors this summer and this middle-aged gal was loving it. Youth is usually not spent watching birds and listening to the way the wind sounds in… Continue reading Last Week of Summer: Bring on Fall Melancholy Season
The morning light is a little different in August - we've got about a month left of Summer, but I'm seeing signs of Fall in the shadows, in the smells, and in the feel of the evening sunset. We've got fires burning up and down the Front Range in Colorado right now and that, paired… Continue reading Charm and Coziness: Interior Inspirations for the Summer to Fall Shift
Will we ever have nostalgia for this particular summer in America in 2024? Will books be written about this decade? No doubt, but they were going to be written even if this was the most boring decade in human history so we might as well try to enjoy ourselves a little. Hey! We even all… Continue reading Summer Vibes or How Not to Drown in Melancholy
Dazed and Confused. Love the style in this movie. (Photo Source) Texture, color and shape - so nostalgic, so good. (Photo Source) Setting the mood! Pink, mustard yellow, green - adorable lamp shades too. (Photo Source) The colors in Joel Meyerowitz's photographs resonate with me. I could look at his work for hours. (Photo Source)… Continue reading August Moodboard: Nostalgia
A sound of summer: a screen door slamming. (Photo Source) Many reasons to love this room - the well worn table, the layered rugs and the dog under foot. (Photo Source) Butter yellow pantry goodness. (Photo Source) Cool blues in the kitchen paired with an orange checkerboard tile in the back hall. (Photo Source) Beautiful… Continue reading Summer Vibes: Color Inspiration in the Heat of the Summer
We're almost halfway through May and I have barely noticed. I don't want to be a person who brag-complains about how busy they are, but it's. been. busy. and time feels like it's speeding up. I'm someone who needs a little daydream time built into my work week to keep me feeling creative and I've… Continue reading Interiors for Spring from this Daydream Believer
Ever since the incredibly destructive Marshall Fire in 2021, when I look at my phone in the morning for the day's weather, I see two words on a regular basis: "Fire Weather." What a great way to wake up. This week we've had Fire Weather almost every day. If you're not from here and you're… Continue reading Shrugging at Fire Weather
Snow is falling outside right now and I've got a hot mug of Earl Gray next to me. I love the smell of Bergamot - it smells like happiness. I just repainted my office Backwoods by Benjamin Moore and I am loving it. It's a forest green that's so forest green you can smell the… Continue reading Current Sensibility: Vintage and More Vintage
The Colorado Nest 