London

January 10, 2017

My reading time these days is…limited – as is my time to scout for new additions to my library. I missed my favorite book sale of the year, held by the Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (housed in a lovely early 20th century Neoclassical building, built as the Post Office and Federal Building) in (read more)

Categories: Architecture, Bluegrass, Books, Travel

Tags: California architecture, English Country Houses, Harper's Magazine, Historic American Buildings Survey, London, Los Angeles, Painted Ladies, Railway stations, San Francisco, Union Station Lexington, Works Progress Administration

June 11, 2015

This post was originally written for the Smitten by Britain website I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Secret Garden when I was growing up – and I still haven’t lost the dream of one day having my own walled garden. (A garden ideally free from the rampages of dogs, and graced with perfect soil and (read more)

Categories: Gardens, Tourism

Tags: England, Gardens, London, Open Squares, Tours

October 30, 2014

The Inns of Court in London have long fascinated me, and though their history, ritual, and shadowy recesses reveal something new every time I am in London – sometimes what catches my eye is much more pedestrian – and is simply there, along my route. That is the joy of the urban environment – there (read more)

Categories: England, London

Tags: Bridges, Holborn, Inns of Court, London, transportation, Victorian

June 19, 2013

I hesitate to describe my affection for England as a love affair, but if one must trace the roots of my repeated trips, the origins would be found in a pasty,skinny freshman in high school sporting a trench coat, bad 1980s hair and a scowl. (I was a freshman in high school. Scowls were my (read more)

Category: England

Tags: British Museum, London, Reading

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