Under the Gables

Heather at A Place of Quiet Rest posted this quote on Tuesday: "It is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics when women of high...

Mending by Daniel Garber is my favorite painting of a woman sewing. I believe that this is also a portrait of Garber's wife. Daniel Gar...

Newlands Valley by Beatrix Potter I think that one subject that our feminine forebearers thought about a lot more than we do today is color...

This is a painting by Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938), one of the famous ten American impressionists. The painting is called Girl Sewing ...

This is a painting by the great American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Its title is Fresh Eggs , and it depicts a farm woman going to t...

See http://coffeeteabooksandme.blogspot.com/2007/06/summer-of-my-mary-heart.html for a contemplation on Mary and Martha. The painting is Ch...

The question is: Where is the milkman, now that we really need him? When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, bread, eggs, and milk were...