Thinking of the Sea

Love this photography.  It feels so beachy and romantic...

{All photos by Yvette Inufio}

A photograph on the neo-traditionalist blog (thanks Katie!) caught my eye and brought me to Florida photographer Yvette Inufio's Etsy shop.  It could be that just being back from Florida has me drawn to the oceanside themes, but I've always had a love of washed out seaside tones and girly simplicity.

Yvette gives her prints lovely names like 'My Endless Sea' and 'I Kiss the Sky'.  She posts many of them on her blog Morning Light in my Room.  I'm featuring the link under 'Good stuff you might fancy...'.

The prints are quite reasonably priced and I'm thinking of ordering a few to frame myself and put up at the condo in Gimli!

Written with love,
Lenore

Pie and Conversation

It doesn't get much better than sugar pie, hot tea and philosophical conversations with Grandma.

We stopped into Finales in St. Boniface on a rainy Monday evening to celebrate Mother's Day and catch up on my recent vacation to the Keys.  They serve scrumptious desserts and other tasty treats.  Lots of windows, light and comfy seating makes this one of  my fave tea and sweets spots in the city.

Grandma Joyce is turning 90 years old this year and she is one cool grandma.  Sharp as a tack and refined as a queen, she loves big band and used to send me the Vanity Fair music issue every year as a teen.

We talked motherhood (so much easier back then, now you have to learn all the technology to keep up), travelling (her next dream trip is to cruise through Alaska or ride past castles on the Danube), the oil spill crisis (she thinks they're not telling us the impact on the coastline animals), and the ipad (she loves the feel of the newspaper in her hands).

Mmmm, what a delicious evening.

Don't you get the feeling you're really getting the straight goods when you hear it from someone who's been watching the world go by for almost 90 years?

Written with love,
Lenore

Door of the Keys Part I

The Keys pass their days on a totally different level than I do.  Drenched in sun and humidity, they decorate their doors with in-your-face shades of watery turquoise and tart key lime.

Alternatively, they manage to look remarkably cool in the most intense of heat.  Plantation style shutters, rich wood tones and the simple elegance of crisp white co-mingle elegantly in the doorways of the old houses of Key West.

So hot and so cool!

Written with love,
Lenore