I so loved your description of correct and proper laundry hanging in your previous article Kate. And I learnt some tips on sheet folding. Love your writing and recipes always. Enjoy your deep, delicious rest and uninterrupted writing.
Oh Kate, the minute you began to talk about hanging out the laundry, I thought of Lois Dodd, and there she was, in your very next paragraph. I drove down Hathorne Point Road the other day, past Lois's house. I didn't stop in--she's 98 now and I don't feel comfortable just barging in on her, but I thought about her as we drove past and might try to make a visit later in the summer. Such a grand person she is, and such a fine painter. Your readers who might be planning a summer trip to Maine will want to know that they can see Lois's work at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, and she often displays at the Caldbeck Gallery, also in Rockland.
I'm doing the same thing here at Swansway, my cottage on the Peconic Bay on Long Island's East End. I plant the perennial garden with annuals and herbs, mulch the beds, and pot geraniums (for sunny spots) and caladium (for shade), early in the season before the heat of high summer comes on, and then there's little left to do but enjoy the lazy days of summer reading, writing, and preparing meals of local produce and seafood pulled fresh from the bay, in which I swim daily. I used to hang laundry here, but a construction project some years ago eliminated the line. You've inspired me to replace it:) Thank you for sharing your lovely champêtre musings.
Oh, Elizabeth! And here I am sitting on my sofa reading your wonderful book "George Sand' which I sourced and found online. Whisking myself away into her amazing life in an earlier France has become an time traveling afternoon pause. Merci!
My laundry is hung out just as yours is Kate, left to breeze dry in the sun and then carefully folded and put away, always has been, always will be! I love the ritual and the fresh scent of outside.
I love the idea of blackberries with tomatoes, I will be serving that as soon as we have blackberries worth picking, they're all tiny and hard this year so far but we've had a few days rain so I hope it was enough to hydrate those just turning!
I finally got around the shrivelled up and dried blackberry dilemma here (late summer is too dry and hot!) by planting a couple of hybrid thornless blackberries- plump and big as my thumb; sweet, and tart when ripe earlier in the summer and in just three years, the yield was good enough for a few weekly harvests.
Ahh Kate, I wondered! I have a friend not far from here who had the same bright ‘plump blackberry’ idea! I will be nipping down there for suckers very soon - now that I don’t feel like its cheating not to get torn to ribbons for a tiny bowl of dried up hard seeds - you can count on it!
I enjoyed reading this morning, having my coffee in bed that my husband bring me. I’m a foodie and a sower.
Lovely surprise to get home to - will look forward to more!
I so loved your description of correct and proper laundry hanging in your previous article Kate. And I learnt some tips on sheet folding. Love your writing and recipes always. Enjoy your deep, delicious rest and uninterrupted writing.
I definitely needed a second Sunday today -- I feel like I could have stayed in bed until 10!
Oh Kate, the minute you began to talk about hanging out the laundry, I thought of Lois Dodd, and there she was, in your very next paragraph. I drove down Hathorne Point Road the other day, past Lois's house. I didn't stop in--she's 98 now and I don't feel comfortable just barging in on her, but I thought about her as we drove past and might try to make a visit later in the summer. Such a grand person she is, and such a fine painter. Your readers who might be planning a summer trip to Maine will want to know that they can see Lois's work at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, and she often displays at the Caldbeck Gallery, also in Rockland.
Let me know if you go and I’ll meet you there!
I'm doing the same thing here at Swansway, my cottage on the Peconic Bay on Long Island's East End. I plant the perennial garden with annuals and herbs, mulch the beds, and pot geraniums (for sunny spots) and caladium (for shade), early in the season before the heat of high summer comes on, and then there's little left to do but enjoy the lazy days of summer reading, writing, and preparing meals of local produce and seafood pulled fresh from the bay, in which I swim daily. I used to hang laundry here, but a construction project some years ago eliminated the line. You've inspired me to replace it:) Thank you for sharing your lovely champêtre musings.
Oh, Elizabeth! And here I am sitting on my sofa reading your wonderful book "George Sand' which I sourced and found online. Whisking myself away into her amazing life in an earlier France has become an time traveling afternoon pause. Merci!
I'll have to come sign your copy when I'm at Studio Faire this October! I'm delighted you're reading me, Kate. Thank you!
My laundry is hung out just as yours is Kate, left to breeze dry in the sun and then carefully folded and put away, always has been, always will be! I love the ritual and the fresh scent of outside.
I love the idea of blackberries with tomatoes, I will be serving that as soon as we have blackberries worth picking, they're all tiny and hard this year so far but we've had a few days rain so I hope it was enough to hydrate those just turning!
I finally got around the shrivelled up and dried blackberry dilemma here (late summer is too dry and hot!) by planting a couple of hybrid thornless blackberries- plump and big as my thumb; sweet, and tart when ripe earlier in the summer and in just three years, the yield was good enough for a few weekly harvests.
Ahh Kate, I wondered! I have a friend not far from here who had the same bright ‘plump blackberry’ idea! I will be nipping down there for suckers very soon - now that I don’t feel like its cheating not to get torn to ribbons for a tiny bowl of dried up hard seeds - you can count on it!
Yes yes to second Sunday vibes. And thanks for all of this. As ever, beautiful writing and a glimpse of a wonderful environment.
Loved this - and the Lois Dodd connection and interview. Thank you - I’m looking forward to my membership!