Cat love and hubby love?

My husband wanted to take these pictures for the blog!! HA!!! Blogging is effecting or rather affecting his life, even though he does not blog. (I am doing a double post--one at Spindle Cottage too)
My 15 year old cat is so affectionate. He likes to put his paw on my head or shoulder if I am sitting down. Sometimes he meows at me until I do sit down so that he can apply his affection.

Unfortunately, I am the one getting grey, even though he is the one getting old.........no...no...I am not getting old.....I am getting younger.......my hair just doesn't agree!!!

I love rainy Fridays!

I love Books, tea, specialty muffins, and a dark rainy day. What a good mixture!



I am reading a series by the painter of light, Thomas Kinkade. He has a Cape Light series and I have found that they get better as you get further into the series. It is nice light reading that mixes a cozy town with some interesting characters, some touches of romance, and some spiritual thoughts. So I plan on doing a little enjoying today.

The muffins I am eating came from another series that he has begun. These were served at a bead and breakfast place in one of his books. They are to die for! They can be found at my recipe blog here:
http://nannykimsrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/07/morning-glory-muffins-from-inn-at-angel.html

They are full of lots of good stuff--coconut, pinapple, nuts, golden raisins, carrots!! heavenly!

Have a nice weekend!

thankfulness for romance

 

I am thankful for romance. I have been married 33 years and my hubby and I are still in love ;-). I love flowers and I have enjoyed these this week.

Why talk about houses anyways?

This is a bed and breakfast in Wilmington. Why bother talking about houses and looking at houses? I just think this is one of the creative gifts God gives mankind. We reflect him in our creativity, don't we. We love to create. Homes are just one aspect of this.

Sometimes it seems like a waste of time to look and think about houses and how they make us feel. I wonder if there is such a thing as a philosophy of house architecture.

I think it is nice to make a house a home. But why---because we want to show forth a loving embrace to those around us. What are other reasons?

I think Tim Keller touches on this a bit:

The Church needs artists because without art we cannot reach the world. The simple fact is that the imagination 'gets you,' even when your reason is completely against the idea of God. "Imagination communicates," as Arthur Danto says, "indefinable but inescapable truth." Those who read a book or listen to music expose themselves to that inescapable truth. There is a sort of schizophrenia that occurs if you are listening to Bach and you hear the glory of God and yet your mind says there is no God and there is no meaning. You are committed to believing nothing means anything and yet the music comes in and takes you over with your imagination. When you listen to great music, you can't believe life is meaningless. Your heart knows what your mind is denying. We need Christian artists because we are never going to reach the world without great Christian art to go with great Christian talk.

--Tim Keller

perhaps this can be applied to homes as well? What do you think?

House love

I love the color of this house which we saw in Wilmington, Nc. It has an interesting shape to the porch. Also I llove the spindles!

Wilmington, NC a nice place to visit

We just got back from a quick trip to Wilmigton, Nc. We very much enjoyed our vist. There were a lot of old homes like the ones above, with cool streets with historic homes.

The home above was designed and built by a teenager who later designed the Lincoln memorial!

This is a river town. It has nice restaurants along the river to eat at and also a boardwalk for walking along.


There are a bunch of bed and breakfasts in the old part of town , not far from the river area. Here is just one.


The pictures above and below are of this interesting Bed and Breakfast.

One reason we went to Wilmington was to see this vessel below that the coast guard uses to train some of its cadets. It is a large sailing vessel with three masts.


It has been out to sea since April. It left its base in CT and went all the way to Columbia, South America. Wilmington was its last stop before returning to CT.

It has a golden Eagle on its front.


We took a boat tour out to see the vessel and there were some huge freight ships arriving into port too. It was all very interesting.

We ate at the above restuarant for lunch. It faces the river and has good food.
We also took a horse carriage tour, has some home made ice cream and fudge, and explored the old area of the town. There are many things going on in Wilmington--museums, theaters, Battleship to tour, gardens, besides the things I have mentioned. If you get the chance to visit you won't be sorry. It would be nicer when the weather is less hot. The beach is about 30 minutes away, I believe...so another option.

Outdoor Wednesday and Simple Pleasures Thursday

It is Outdoor Wednesday HERE .

It will be Simiple Pleasures Thursday on Thursday. One of the things I like doing is taking a morning walk. I love this old bridge that is in my walk.




I love the way the sunshine and shadows hit it. Weddings have even taken place here.


Then there is the soft patina of the old wood on one of the warehouses (very Old with some newer wood for repairs)



I just love the soft grey of worn wood! When I am done with my walk these days I pick a few of these off of my pear tree. This year the 8 squirrels have not eaten all of them!! So I get some and it is a treat!