LE ZOUT ...

There is a certain melancholy to the beaches of the North Sea...

A TERRACE IN ROME...

Afternoon sun, cicadas, a southern wind carrying African scents, Roman pines shading the inamorati...     

THE JOHN TRADESCANTS...

... they were father and son, botanists, explorers, collectors, gardeners. The father went all the way to Siberia, the son brought the magnolia tree to Europe...

The following images come from a catalogue called Museum Tradescantianum by John Tradescant, the younger published in 1656.  

                                                           Visual Source BibliOdyssey

WEEK-END IN THE VINEYARD...

... the charms of an older America.

  

AT HOME IN ROLLER STRASSE ...

... some pictures taken as I was un-packing the boxes recently arrived from NY.