A Very Merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday Season. I want to thank you for reading Beautiful Summer Morning through out this formative year. Our first anniversary is just around the corner in the New Year. I will be rededicating myself to making these pages a source of inspiration for you. I have many new [...]

Christmas: that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance: a day in which we think of everything we have [...]

“Don’t you love heavy fragrances, faint with sweetness, ravishing juices of odor, heliotropes, violets, water-lilies,–powerful attars and extracts that snatch your soul off your lips?”
Source: Harriet Prescott Spofford The Amber Gods
I include this one to remind us of the heady scents of summer. Bring some flowers into your home, they add charm and [...]