I’ve wanted these for years, ever since my ex of more than two decades ago had amassed a few. He worked in building maintenance for a fancy Manhattan building where there were lots of giveaways after estate sales, and he had a good eye. There was a healthy competition between his boss and him on who would get the choice items, but he got some fabulous pieces as evidenced by our living room in 2000.
These were on my wish list for quite some time, but one day I looked at the two plastic lamps of a lower quality and of this general style and realized that they were not “good enough” for our living room.
While not as vibrant as Spring, this is around the time of the equinox and the beginning of Autumn. There are amazing blooms from the succulents in the front yard which we love, but some of the changing colors (not the ones typical of the ones “leafers” look for in New England) are in flux in the background, so there’s a lot of green right now, which I keep arguing IS a color. Soon there will be a lot of blue from the rosemary bushes, and some of the other “green blobs” will have white and yellow flowers as the two mature plum trees lose most of their leaves, taking some of our privacy away in one direction for a few months. The lemon tree is about to have tons of ripening take place too.
From these pictures it looks like I was the only one at Lou’s house that day. It was still a bit brisk so people stayed inside. However, I wanted to make sure I captured what I saw. I loved Lou’s backyard and historical home, but I was only able to stop by for a little while before heading downtown to help setup for the big gala for the shelter the same evening.
I now have two remote-controlled spinners for the optical illusion ball in wire object and the metal globe with the repurposed license plate Vallejo sign. This gives some idea of our backyard porch view and part of our garden, with some cameos from a few dogs. You can hear the four water features going. They turn on courtesy of Alexa at sunrise and shut off when the lights come on at sunset, which is also when the solar lights illuminate the back garden areas. This is our sanctuary (especially during early Covid).
…in the making of this video, but I wanted to convince myself that it was alive, so I kept bumping it until it stretched its arms out to brace itself.
Under my gardening table I have a trash can that I use for convenience to discard things I can’t compost. I almost reached in to get one of the bamboo leaves that fell in there, only to see that it was a living bug! Lest you think I was making it up, here’s the juxtaposition from the bamboo area of our backyard and under the outdoor staircase where a lot of the dead bamboo leaves collect.
