Photos and Text Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood
Today it's raining outside my window!
I'm thankful God watered the bulbs and plants and trees. I watered the bamboo, boxwood and rosemary plants - inside my kitchen window.
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| My Kitchen Window Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
It's wonderful to have rosemary in the kitchen for cooking and fragrance. We also add rosemary to our homemade soaps, potpourri and bath salts. I gently rub my hand across the rosemary to release its scent into the room. My hands smell wonderful, too!
My daughter, Sarah, gave me the two tiny boxwood plants for Christmas. The boxwood would have been fine outside in our cold Midwest winters, but I decided they would winter in my sunny kitchen window. I'll find a place for them in one of our cottage gardens in the spring.
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| Boxwood & Bamboo Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
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| Boxwood Evergreens In Our Front Cottage Gardens Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
"Any device in science
is a window on to nature,
and each new window
contributes to the
breadth of our view."
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| My Kitchen Window Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood "Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within." Claudia Johnson There are other windows and other delights in our simple kitchen.  Here's our new Bamboo Steamer, for making our girls' favorite Chinese dumplings. We discovered the steamer, and these beautiful porcelian tea cups/mugs with diffusers at the Chinese Market in Kansas City, Missouri.  Monogram initial ceramic tiles...  My favorite: Oolong and White Peony Tea!  You'll find bunny shaped tea pots and Noah's ark-shaped teapots from our collections on top of our black cabinets. I painted our oak cabinets first with white, green and then black, and finally sanded off paint until I got the distressed look I desired.  I moved one of the CD players and two speakers to the kitchen, so Martina McBride, The Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Chris Tomlin and Sara Groves could serenade us.  A copper tea pot perches in the pot rack above the sink...with a little birdie....a Christmas decoration that I just couldn't put away.  There's a stained-glass dragonfly in my kitchen window. It was a gift from my husband, Ed, who can't seem to go shopping without bringing me back every dragonfly that he finds!  "Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; What's the view from your window? Tell me about the simple delights in your kitchen! Sign up to have my stories delivered to your inbox by adding your email address in the box in the top right of this blog that says: "Follow By Email." "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." Zora Neale Hurston Marcia Marcia's BLOG: hhttp://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/ |
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