Morning Glory number two, taken early this morning.
I’m so grateful it’s relatively warm so these babies can bloom for a while. It’s going to get colder starting tomorrow, but no freezes in sight. And soon I’ll be in NYC (fingers crossed) so I won’t see the damage if there is a freeze. This will be the only fall I can remember where I’ll be so busy that all of things I normally do – bring plants in from the porch if it might freeze, mourn the loss of zinnias and morning glories and moonflowers because of an October/early November freeze – won’t be on my radar. I’m going to enjoy this season of “I have no responsibility for the survival of my plants.” Because normally, I absolutely feel I have responsibility for them, hence the many photos over the years of lots of potted porch plants sitting in our entryway.
Today we have a table read of the script. Happily, all I have to do is watch and listen. Then I’m going to tend to some things around here and RELAX, which I wrote in capital letters in my planner. I’m making Don do the same.
Late afternoon play with Imogen:
Imogen and Monty have become friends. Monty is a gentle guy and Imogen liked him immediately.
She likes to pet him.
Who wouldn’t?
Monty has been with us for almost 20 years. We found him in a little shop when we first moved out East. We named him Monty in honor of the little hamlet where we lived: Montrose. He has the sweetest expression on his face.
I pet him frequently, too.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
Those eyes have such expression! When I saw the title of today’s post I thought you were going to discuss my gardening idol Monty Don!!
I love him, too, but I generally don’t discuss him in the off-season! Ha!
Thanks, Jen.
Stay safe.
Such a stunning blue is that blossom!
Just finished The Madness of Crowds. Couldn’t take my time with it, as I had planned, because another hold I had—A Gentleman in Moscow—just popped up. (I started that one and can tell I love it already!) Thanks for your excellent recommendations.
You are most welcome, Shanna!
Stay safe!
A friend just emailed that he thought latest Penny the best…I enjoyed it…he is an author…professor…etc…the Clinton Penny book also is a keeper…hope you get some reading in soon…
I’ll probably not have time for a lot of reading. I’ll be working 12+ hours a day.
Stay safe, Brenda.
Claudia, I am enchanted with your Sophie and Imogen! Their expressions and tiny wardrobes are adorable. The color of their eyes are especially lovely. My daughter has clear golden eyes like Sophie & my beloved grandma had clear aquamarine eyes (with the “eye freckles” too!) like Imogen in the last picture.
I confess I played with dolls much longer than my (tomboy!) mother could understand, although she indulged me. I actually never stopped, haha! I loved my beautiful barbies, baby dolls and dollhouse. I still have my favorite childhood baby doll and have re-collected some of my barbies on eBay over the years (including a barbie townhouse!)
Thanks for sharing your collections, dollhouses, dolls, sheep, flowers & NYC adventures…it is so much fun to follow along!
Hugs,
Christy
You’re very welcome. I’m so glad you enjoy these collections and the dollhouses and my new found love for Blythes!
Most appreciated, Christy!
Stay safe.
Can I just weight in here?! To think of someone’s eyes being SO beautiful, one with clear golden eyes and another with clear aquamarine eyes, wow, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed that in anyone (unless maybe it was contact lenses with colorization). How wonderful! My dad had clear green eyes (a lighter grass-green but with no hint of blue or brown per se) and they were also gorgeous. (Wish I’d gotten the gene!) I’ve always recalled, don’t know if it’s a myth, that the actress Elizabeth Taylor had PURPLE eyes. And that the actor Paul Newman was said to have amazing, startling blue eyes.
Do you know of the American Girl dolls (originally from The Pleasant Company [Wisconsin] and now from Mattel; pricey, over $100 each) and how you can have one ‘made for you’ (customized to a degree) with color of eyes, color of hair, color of skin tone, etc.?
I also, like you, have tried to duplicate my Barbie collection in my older years! Lots of times, I’ve found our moms, I guess hell-bent on decluttering and trying to keep the house/closets organized, got rid of ‘everything’ from our childhoods (well, not everything, that’s an exaggeration; but, you know, doll collections we no longer played with … even our childhood books we were no longer reading) when we young girls eventually had loftier interests once we hit our preteen/teen years. (This has been a point of discussion with Claudia on MHC blog before!) So, I too now have, as authentic/genuine repros, my favorite Barbie, Midge and Skipper from the early 1960s, and I invested (indulged) in the early-60s cardboard dream house, too. I even scored a ‘plastic’ Barbie-doll carrying case of which there were several in that particular time period. I’ve never found the Barbie Closet, though; at least one I could afford. (I remember it well, but it has never been my bigger priority in trying to recreate my Barbie collection.) I have friends (and a husband) who thinks this is a lot of silliness (and waste of money), so I’m glad there’s Christy out there who understands!
My mom got rid of my Barbie (and my Tiny Tears) and I’ve never recovered from it!
These morning glories are … glorious! Why don’t I know more about morning glories? I just looked it up and they should be fine in SoCalif where I live since they’re native to Mexico (and we border Mexico [well, that’s a rather broad statement, since Mexico is a big country with a lot of regions, and California is a big state with ITS own regions!]). Lots of diff colors including lavendar-purple versions but yours are the BEST and I think that true-blue variety you have might be called “Heavenly Blue”. That’s the one I want! (I just had a flashback: Did my father once refer to morning glory as an invasive weed? Hope not. Don’t know where that just came from.)
Won’t you have Don trained to bring in the plants to the porch/entry/indoors so that you don’t lose them? Or do you not want him to have the hassle … of course sometimes, too, he’ll be with you at the apartment in the city, true?
Imogen. SO much expression and you have her posed/staged so cleverly.
Are you pronouncing her name: Emma-Jen ..?.. emphasis on the ‘Em’ …
(I recall watching the movie with Huge Grant and the wonderful Toni Collette [‘About A Boy’, 2002] and there was a baby, I think his niece or a friend’s kid, named Imogen, and that’s how the Brits sounded out the name.)
I like the name. Sounds solid, like Claire or Madeleine.
No, it’s pronounced IMajen. Not Em. I don’t think the Brits say Em. They say Im. It’s in Shakespeare and it’s been around a long time.
I don’t know why you don’t know about them. We had them covering two lengths of our back yard fence when we lived in San Diego. Some think of them as invasive but I never felt that way when I lived in California. I loved them. And they are Heavenly Blue, though I have another variety as well.
No, I’m not going to make Don bring the plants in. What I don’t see won’t bother me and he’ll have enough to do. I’m not getting back officially until December 11th, though I’ll be home for Thanksgiving, and they would be long gone by then.
Stay safe, Vicki.
Very cute photos of Monty and Imogen.
Thank you, Jan!
Stay safe.
Imogen with Monty is just adorable! She is so pretty and Monty is so sweet looking, as always.
Thank you, Lily!
Stay safe!
Yay! Prayers answered!!!
Life continues.
Why does Imogen have blue eyes and brown eyes? Am I going crazy or does she have interchangeable eyes?
That’s super that there is a table read for film as well as stage work. I had no idea. Hoping your day has been good.
XO
I mentioned it in a post but I’ll go over it again – Blythe dolls have four sets of eyes, all a different color. There is a pull string in the back. You pull it once, they eyes close, you hear a click, you open them, and the eyes are looking to the right and the color has changed. Then pull again, back to the center, another color. Another pull, click, to the left with yet another color. And one more, back to the center, another color. They eyes are so much better than they were in the original doll by Kenner. Apparently those eyes scared little kids!
Stay safe, Martha.
So sorry I had missed that prior description of them.
I probably could have googled it to check. Thanks for the explanation. This certainly makes them even more exceptional! Wow!
Best to all
Amazing, right?
Maybe I’ll do a little video of how they change….sound like a good idea?
xo
Definitely ! I doubt anyone has made one.
I love Imogen and Monty together. Adorable!
Thank you, Diane!
Stay safe.