Laura Daluga AFID and Brian Skol, Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan I have been surrounding myself with beautiful blooms as I work away at a series of paintings featuring orchids and post one botanical photo each day on my Facebook page. In line with this, I took a “floral [...]
Laurie Tennant with the Belle Isle Conservatory in the background On an overcast Sunday morning a few weeks ago, I crossed the MacArthur bridge over the Detroit River to Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. I found my way to the glass-domed Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and met up with [...]
The Alchemist’s Garden, oil on linen canvas, 60″ W x 48″ H I have now had a second home in southeast Florida for nearly 3 years. What I notice in creating my living space there is that the heavier, darker, more traditional décor feels “wrong” in Florida, for lack [...]
As a child, before a predicted winter storm I would go to bed with visions of playing in deep blankets of snow and the excitement of staying home from school the next day. The so-called “snow day” was a longed-after respite from the drudgery of the school year. At [...]