Today, my computer desktop shows a photo I took of wisteria. The pyramid of purple hangs among the delicate green leaves. At the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., a wide swath of wisteria intersects the front of the older building that faces the mall. I stood under the massive vines once, bees buzzing, …
Author Archives: Karen
Know What We Know
Over my computer is a watercolor of the house across the street. My late mother-in-law, Libby, painted it in her old age, from a photo I’d taken one golden fall evening. A flag flutters in the shadows above a picket fence. The white house is trimmed with red striped awnings over two small front windows. …
Internal Matters
There’s a new house in the neighborhood. With a one-man construction crew, the progress is slow. Finally, he installed the door and the siding. Two stories, with lots of paned windows and a wide front porch, it is a simple style that fits the modest neighborhood. I do wish, though, the siding and the door …