Summer Time!

Good morning on this beautiful July day! The flowers are blooming everywhere! It hasn't been too hot here yet it's warm enough to say "Ahhh Summertime!".

We had a great 4th of July full of food, family, friends and later on, fireworks! We didn't set them off but saw some great ones!

Yesterday we took a drive over to Old Westbury Gardens just to relax and walk around. We go there a lot :)    We just love the English style gardens. Below is the playhouse for their daughter . It's from roughly 1912.  I was lucky enough to meet the only surviving child (at the time) of the family many years ago at the mansion. Her name was Peggy. She had donated the estate and its gardens to New York for preservation in 1959 but still freely walked the grounds and the home she grew up in.

If you scroll back to my post about Ronald McDonald Walk in May, you can see the estate. Peggy was very nice. At first as I walked through the different gardens and met her I didn't know who she was. I thought she was just a friendly older lady who loved flowers and plants. She had a big sun hat on and a long dress. After a few minutes, she told me she was Peggy Phipps. She told me how she played for hours in her thatched cottage play house.  Peggy is  no longer with us, she passed away in 2006 at the age of 99,  but the beautiful home she grew up in will be with us forever and the memory of meeting her. I met her one more time after that first meeting. They had a special presentation of costumes that the children would wear when they put on plays for the adults of the family. Amazing costumes created in the early 1900's.

I'm also working on some crafts for a craft fair I'm doing. I've been busy!

About a week ago, we had some thunder and lightning rain storms. After they were over, there was a crazy light illuminating the house! The sky was bright coral!

It was beautiful. As if the heavens had opened!

 

Have a beautiful day!