Kinfolk: ice cream + flowers

What a brilliant idea. I was at the San Francisco Ferry Building earlier today and checked out the latest issue of Kinfolk at the Heath outpost. I'm always in awe of Kinfolk's general beauty (Heath's too), but this ice cream/floral spread is exceptionally beautiful. I think the prettiest shots are not even pictured here.

All images courtesy of Kinfolk. Also, check out Amy Merrick's website and blog for more of her lovely floral stylings.

Floral Alphabet by Anne Lee

I love coming across cool stuff in the blogosphere, and in more recent months, via Pinterest. The latter is where I first spotted Anne Lee's Floral Alphabet. At first I thought it was a font, but no - even better - it's the real deal. Images by Anne Lee Designs.

Polaroid Week

The Flickr blog reported the 'Roid Week 2010 group pool, leaving me with three days left to participate. It just happens that I recently took a stack of pictures on Polaroid film.

Unofficial Flower Week

I started this blog too early, perhaps, since I am not yet printing with my letterpress. I was joking to a friend of mine that it seems like all I want to do is post pictures of flowers and have been trying to resist.

Then, the very next morning Abby Try Again declared it unofficial flower week, so I'm getting my post in just in the nick of time. Independently of 'unofficial flower week' in the blogsphere, automatism and Roe have both recently shared lovely flower posts too.

Signs of Spring

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.  

                         ~ Matsuo Bashō

While the rest of the world is apparently carpeted in powder and experiencing a blizzard for the ages, sunny California is, well, mostly sunny. It's been raining a lot in San Francisco so flowers are beginning to replace the bare winter branches.

 

In the spirit of new beginnings, you'll notice I'm revamping my blog. Sometimes when stalled in one area of life, it's a good time to attack another area. I'm not quite done with the blog, and since I'm not sure when I will be (I have a lot more to learn but was helped immensely by Nichole of littlebrownpen, who takes gorgeous photographs, and sometimes of Paris!), I thought I'd leave the blog mostly up. Stay tuned.

inspiration: yellow like the sun.

Winter must be getting to me because I am craving yellow. I've chosen (as in: folded the corners of catalog pages) a new yellow rug for the kitchen and yellow chairs, which my husband has yet to see. No doubt he will veto these choices, so in the meantime there are yellow tulips, which have been cheery in the dull, bleak mid-winter light.

I love the combination of film, sunlight, and flowers. The light and blooms remind me of Vermeer (although, to be clear, I'm drawing no comparison between myself and Vermeer), who seemed to rely heavily on natural light in otherwise dark and conceivably cold rooms:

Vermeer seems like a wintertime painter for some reason.

I think these pears want to be poached. Here's a recipe for making poached pears.

merry christmas.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth