tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post115795298297133338..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: The Magnolia BouquetMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-6113912756973067682012-08-24T10:01:05.648-04:002012-08-24T10:01:05.648-04:00My mother at 83 is still doing a good deal of gard...My mother at 83 is still doing a good deal of gardening and has become an accomplished weaver--she was involved in handwork and needle arts since childhood. So she is her mother's daughter.<br /><br />But though I have canned garden produce with her, I have not sewn much in many years, so I suppose that family tradition dies with me unless you count stitching with words. I don't think Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-41633480160883139052012-08-24T09:44:19.014-04:002012-08-24T09:44:19.014-04:00A very attractive couple and a lovely photograph, ...A very attractive couple and a lovely photograph, Marly.<br /><br />There is, thank goodness, a return to crafts and homesteading and an understanding that there is beauty in individually designed and created things.<br />I applaud this.<br />We know of more and more people who grow, ,use and can produce; make clothing; create their own unique environments - and use techniques that have been Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-50884832273263825282012-02-25T09:23:47.206-05:002012-02-25T09:23:47.206-05:00Vicki,
I posted this to a cousin's page on fa...Vicki,<br /><br />I posted this to a cousin's page on facebook, as she wanted a copy of the photograph--and am amazed that you managed to follow that thread!<br /><br />Yes, I am in great hopes that many quiet people working together are carrying on tradition and courtesy and the arts. I have no doubt that "the intelligentsia" may have it wrong about many things, and that the marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-89985915813086281232012-02-25T08:35:18.279-05:002012-02-25T08:35:18.279-05:00Love old wedding photos like this. Reminds me that...Love old wedding photos like this. Reminds me that i must frame the one i have of my grandparents.<br /><br />One thing about the "inter-web" that has delighted and encouraged me is the discovery that the domestic arts are very much alive and well amongst young folk. amazing how many stitching and cooking/preserving bloggers there are out there. The intelligentsia may have it wrong, butzephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1158238402178824612006-09-14T08:53:00.000-04:002006-09-14T08:53:00.000-04:00There are ways and ways of dancing...There are ways and ways of dancing...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1158215358890661922006-09-14T02:29:00.000-04:002006-09-14T02:29:00.000-04:00A lovely glimpse of your family, Marly. But they s...A lovely glimpse of your family, Marly. But they should have danced--your grandmother looks like dancing ran through her blood.<BR/>And those magnolias!jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1158113304218878522006-09-12T22:08:00.000-04:002006-09-12T22:08:00.000-04:00Surely ye jest... They were Southern Baptists in a...Surely ye jest... They were Southern Baptists in a teeny-weeny town. Not a chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1158111429423688862006-09-12T21:37:00.000-04:002006-09-12T21:37:00.000-04:00I'm fearful that any day now the hovering "they" m...I'm fearful that any day now the hovering "they" might come, tote me away, and stuff me in a "home". There's something about dwelling hours a day with teens that startles the sensibilities. I'm thinking one of two results: either they'll keep me young or send me to an early grave. I'm opting for the former, yet there are days . . . I’ll take reminders from your grandparents: live dense, not Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1158062126036644962006-09-12T07:55:00.000-04:002006-09-12T07:55:00.000-04:00What a magnificent-looking couple--he so stolid, h...What a magnificent-looking couple--he so stolid, handsome, and sure, she with her full, Gallic-looking lips and shiny eyes. <BR/> What wonderful stories you tell, Marly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com