tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42438620994057964792012-03-05T09:50:46.329-08:00Rela's JournalRelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-13592411560895489882012-03-01T20:57:00.000-08:002012-03-01T20:57:20.231-08:00Living Green
GREEN - The color of life - a symbol of hope and fertility, the color of inexperience and youth, of jealousy and sickness-
the best and the worst of life-
........from the Old English word 'growan'-Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-8167895820957278392012-02-14T10:14:00.000-08:002012-02-14T10:14:29.322-08:00Think Pink
La Vie en Rose
Even Mother Nature is Thinking Pink in time for Valentine's Day-
at least here in Northern California.
Seeing life through rose-colored glasses ( la vie en rose) is not such a bad way of viewing things-
positive and upbeat...
I need to get me a pair of those!
EDITH PIAF 1915-1963
La Vie en Rose, the Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-8745579357811391022012-02-08T11:51:00.000-08:002012-02-10T16:51:18.802-08:00SLEEPING AROUND
Sweet dreams...
The shadows are long by the time we pull in between the stone entrance pillars of Twin Farms, in Barnard, Vermont.The plowed road winds through the bare birches....
...past an old barn
...and a stone cottage where icicles hanging from the eves indicate the frigid temperature outdoors
... to the Main House, once Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-79051978628804880232012-01-15T13:06:00.000-08:002012-01-17T19:02:25.473-08:00The F word
Food for Thought
Just outside the jewel Italian city of canals is the fabulous and untouristed region of the Veneto.
Asolo is a perfect medieval hilltop town in the Veneto.
It's spectacular and quiet except on the second Sunday of
every month when a fabulous antique market is held in the square.
Charming hotels and authentic restaurants make this a must visit
JULIET'S BALCONY
Romeo Romeo Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-59251933942946926602012-01-08T20:29:00.000-08:002012-01-08T20:29:31.261-08:00It's a Small World ...History Repeats Itself...
At the southern most tip of Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans crash into each other, the Dutch East India company established a trading colony in the mid 17th century .
Cape of Good Hope
Founded in 1679 by the Governor of Cape Colony-Stellenbosch-
is in the heart of what is now known as The Winelands
Simon Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-38826666393400734132011-12-31T11:27:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:53:23.966-08:00TURN TURN TURNFor every season there is a purpose ...
A mist hangs over the hills shrouding the trees in a veil of invisibility.
How grey is my valley...
A lonely leaf hangs tenaciously on bare vines
...a pile of oak leaves will soon crumble to dust and return to the earth
and dry thistles will be mowed down
rusted smudge pots waiting ...
to be put to frost prevention service among the tenderRelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-73705401172635778212011-12-25T00:06:00.000-08:002011-12-26T20:57:50.283-08:00Coming full circleIt's a wrap.....
It seems that one of my readers was highly offended by my last journal entry about gifting. I can only imagine that they looked at the pictures of all the outrageously extravagant gifts and did not bother to read the words which were very obviouly facetious .
Those of you who did read through and past the photographs hopefully could tell that it was written tongue in cheek.Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-69506754386573230482011-12-03T14:34:00.000-08:002011-12-03T22:15:47.946-08:00Wrap it up !How many catalogs have you already tossed this season?
Hopefully they were printed on recycled paper or I cringe to think how many forests are decimated each year. The bulge of my mailbox is enough to turn almost anyone into a "tree hugger."
The Nieman Marcus Christmas Book 2011 deserves a quick glance to see what the frivolously unimaginative rich can purchase on a whim.
A motor boat for Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-30476097223109726112011-11-27T11:45:00.000-08:002011-11-27T11:45:43.595-08:00The Chicken ChroniclesSO... are you sick of turkey yet ?
A NORMAN ROCKWELL THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving has been an established tradition in the United States since President Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday at the end of the Civil War .
It's a good time to think about how much we have to be grateful for. Remember heroes past and present who have made it possible for us to live in freedom in this glorious Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243862099405796479.post-3691426467179058132011-11-08T15:10:00.000-08:002011-11-10T13:12:07.694-08:00Out of Africa“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Nagong Hills...” Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen). Can you almost hear Meryl Streep ?
Last April Don and I celebrated a milestone birthday with a trip to South Africa and Botswana. In anticipation we watched OUT OF AFRICA and WHITE MISCHIEF again and read a few books to get into safari mode. Though Kenya was not a part of our itinerary, it was Relahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15044546278048443721noreply@blogger.com