Category: Gardening

April 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

How I keep from getting jittery on coffee while proofing manuscript, fill the pot with flowers

April 20, 2014 / Vickie Lester

A love resurrection…

Frankly, my Angels, Spring is a rough time of year for me. Many years ago my father suffered a fatal heart attack while we were living in London. One of my best friends died in April ten years ago, and my mother had the stroke that killed her on Easter…

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April 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

This Is Big: Scientists Just Found Earth’s First Cousin – Adrienne LaFrance – The Atlantic

An artist’s concept of Kepler-186f. (NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech) Right now, 500 light years away from Earth, there’s a planet that looks a lot like our own. It is bathed in dim orangeish light, which at high noon is only as bright as the golden hour before sunset back home. NASA…

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April 11, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Enchanted Hill, a Hollywood dream made real by Wallace Neff, Fred Thomson, and Frances Marion

In a short while our hill resembled a gigantic wedding cake. pine trees studded every tier, while on top rose a huge house with a drawing room two stories and a half high, rare tapestries on the walls, an Aeolian pipe organ, and windows overlooking five acres of lawn. Beautifully…

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April 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The movie colony, an old area of town right under the hills, once home to Elvis and Frank Sinatra and…

Dutifully, Anne navigated her hired Prius through a terrain at once dusty and opulent; Palm Springs is, after all, an exorbitantly irrigated pile of sand. Her destination was a taupe Mid-Century house, all angles and vertical glass walls. Anne parked the car by the curb and buzzed at the gate.…

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April 2, 2014 / Vickie Lester

It’s pretty here…and I’ve been swimming a lot…and looking at the sky…

February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Pouf Honey! Before we begin, I said to the Mister recently that if his current Herr Direktör didn’t let him go home early, I would go down to the set with a pair of pinking shears with which I’d cut off Little Herr! What? Too much?! The Mister thought so…after he’d…

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February 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Divine Desolation – A Little Historic Palm Springs Architecture | Paradise Leased

This site is architectural eye-candy. And, I love that Steve Vaught explores a side of Palm Springs somewhat forgotten in our appreciation of mid-century design. Divine Desolation – A Little Historic Palm Springs Architecture | Paradise Leased.

February 20, 2014 / Vickie Lester

MURDER MOST FRAGRANT! ~ Guest Review of L’Aimant by Coty by The Perfumed Dandy. | SCENTS MEMORY

THE SCENE I bid you welcome to the most unsettling afternoon tea party in an English rose garden of which, I hazard, you will ever partake. An afternoon tea, in an English rose garden, unsettling? Why in the name of heaven how? Why? Well there’s a killer at the table…

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February 15, 2014 / Vickie Lester

What is a mark of beauty, endurance, courage, and transformation? A scar.

Babies, you know the drill. Click on the purple letters below. *** how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart. *** *** how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart. ***