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Hot and cold running soup
ByVivianI love making and eating soup for breakfast. On this hot Summer’s day looking at a pile of ripe tomatoes that I grew, it was obvious what the main ingredient for today’s soup was going to be. I knew that I felt like having cold tomato soup but I knew my husband would prefer his hot. From one…
On the Boulevard: My Front Chard
ByVivianOne of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my “front chard”. It grows between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about 140 square feet ,which is about the size of a large Tokyo apartment or a very small Florida walk-in closet. Well, you can’t live in it, but you can certainly…
Banana Bird
ByVivianI am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of the gorgeous setting and decor are the fake indoor plants that seem to be de rigueur in vacation homes. The silliest is the fake banana tree…
You can do anything you put your mind to; Thinking in the living room
ByVivianAs a child my Mother encouragingly told me;” You can do anything you put your mind too.” As an adult, reality usually impinges on that fantasy and you realize that a great deal of action is required too. Well maybe, not anymore! My Daughter, Ariel Garten is the CEO of Interaxon www.interaxon.com a thought controlled computing…
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Packaging up the chard
ByVivianMy chard grows to great height and girth. I never harvest the plants until I have warning of imminent frost, since it is part of my decorative garden and people enjoy observing the plant’s beauty. Harvesting a few leaves every now and again encourages new growth and as the plants are so lush, no one misses them. [Note…
Aujourd’hui “Christina” est arrivee en France!
ByVivianEarly this Spring a very stylish and beautiful woman came to my studio to buy a painting.Her name is Christina. As we looked through some of my portraits her equally stylish and handsome husband asked if I could do his wife’s portrait. Thus began the painting you see today. The next day when Christina arrived at…